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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:27:22 -0800
From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
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Subject: status of ipchains in 2.6?
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I recently discovered that ipchains is rather broken.  I noticed the
problem on ia64, but suspect that it's likely to affect all 64-bit
platforms (if not 32-bit platforms).  A more detailed description of
the problem I'm seeing is here:

	http://tinyurl.com/sm9d

Unlike ipchains, iptables works perfectly fine, so perhaps we just
need to update Kconfig to discourage ipchains on ia64 (and/or other
64-bit platforms)?

	--david