Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue Jan 17 2006 - 16:04:56 EST


On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:19:56 PST, Linus Torvalds said:

> And largish networking updates: there's a "common netfilter" setup now,
> which you'll notice when you do "make config" or equivalent, since a lot
> of the netfilter rules now work on ipv4 and/or ipv6 rather than having
> separate (and duplicate) versions for each.

Hooray! Finally. ;)

Does this require modprobing of the modules by hand, or is there a version
of iptables in the pipe that knows how to do this? I checked the CVS snapshot
directory on ftp.netfilter.org last night, and the latest one there didn't
know about this yet.

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