Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away. [LWN.net]

From:		Andi Kleen <ak-AT-muc.de>
To:		Martin Josefsson <gandalf-AT-wlug.westbo.se>
Subject:		Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away.
Date:		Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:15:58 +0200
Cc:		Rusty Russell <rusty-AT-rustcorp.com.au>, Marc Ballarin <Ballarin.Marc-AT-gmx.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-osdl.org>, netfilter-devel-AT-lists.netfilter.org, lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem-AT-davemloft.net>

Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se> writes:

> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
>> > Sure, but you have to start somewhere.  Next step will be #error.  Then
>> > finally remove the whole thing (I don't want to remove the whole thing
>> > to start with, since that would create a silent failure).
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Rusty.
>> > --
>>
>> What replaces the firewall stuff? It can't just "go away"!
>
> Ever heard of iptables?

Except that it doesn't have usable 32bit emulation on x86-64.
32bit userland on x86-64 kernel cannot use iptables, they have
to use ipchains.

I would ask for to not drop ipchains until this is fixed.

-Andi

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