Re: [BUG] ebt_accept is not 64-bit clean

On Saturday 20 November 2004 01:15, Peter Nelson wrote:
> I was testing ebtables on my AMD64 and the among extension refused to
> work stating:
>
> $ ebtables -A FORWARD --among-src 00:11:22:33:44:55 -j DROP
> The kernel doesn't support a certain ebtables extension, consider
> recompiling your kernel or insmod the extension.
>
> Even though I had ebt_among probed.  Looking at dmesg I get this:
>
> Ebtables v2.0 registered
> ebtables: among: wrong size: 1060against expected 1056, rounded to 1056
> kernel msg: ebtables bug: please report to author: match->check failed
>
> It seems likely there is a pointer in there that is assumed to be 4
> bytes instead of 8 bytes, but I don't see anything obvious from the
> source.  I'm using Debian 2.6.8-9-amd64-k8

Please apply the attached patch to the ebtables userspace tool and send back 
the output of the same ebtables rule.
Apply the patch by 
# cd ebtables_src_dir
# patch <patch_file
# make
# ./ebtables -A FORWARD --among-src 00:11:22:33:44:55 -j DROP

cheers,
Bart



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