Hello Jamal! On lör, 2009-01-17 at 09:41 -0500, jamal wrote: > Debian Lenny has a small issue with iptables: > > 1) libxtables.so is missing > My opinion: I think it should be put in package iptables instead of > iptables-dev since tc will load it at runtime.
Preferably, tc should use the versioned library instead that matches the ABI it expects. (libxtables.so.0 is shipped in iptables) $ dpkg -L iptables | grep libxtables.so /lib/libxtables.so.0.0.0 /lib/libxtables.so.0 (IMHO it would also be nice if tc where link to xtables at build-time instead of run-time...) > 2) The headers like xtables.h etc which are part of iptables 1.4.2 > should be included (maybe as part of iptables-dev). xtables.h is already part of iptables-dev. $ dpkg -L iptables-dev | grep xtables.h /usr/include/xtables.h > 3) The iptables shipped claims to be 1.4.1 - in which case i would I have iptables 1.4.2 (running debian unstable) though, so maybe my above statements aren't necessarily true for lenny.... > expect the libipt_*.so (eg libipt_MARK.so) to be fully there and so we > wont need to make any changes to ipt. I beleive fixing libipt_*.so is a dead end... Patrick McHardy gave some helpful hints about future visions: | We've added a shared library to iptables so m_ipt doesn't have | to reimplement things, which is pretty much guaranteed to break | occasionally. It doesn't contain all the functionality thats | needed yet, but it should be fairly easy to add. Most likely | you just need to move the code around. (From http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg85706.html ) > Sorry, I dont know how to navigate around debian development - maybe > whoever is maintaining iptables on debian can make these changes (at See http://packages.debian.org/iptables for package information and related links. I've added the iptables maintainer, Laurence J. Lane, to the recipients of this mail. > least #1 and #2 i think are important for iptables 1.4.2 and #3 could be > a simple transitional phase). > Then i can provide a patch for iproute2 Thank you very much for looking into this problem! -- Regards, Andreas Henriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
