Subject: Re: [PATCH] [IPROUTE2] Compatibility with iptables 1.4.0

From: jamal <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:30:37 -0500

On Mon, 2007-24-12 at 18:07 +0200, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote:
> Hi, probably like this will be better?
> Previous patch was not backward compatible.
> 
> Btw i checked twice, name is changed from libipt_MARK to libxt_MARK. So
> probably when you have tested this, your iproute2 was looking to old
> libipt_MARK (iptables is not deleting old libraries on make install).
> 

Grr. I tested with a different iptables target and thought the rest work
in the same manner. iptables needs to be consistent.

-----
lilsol:~# export IPTABLES_LIB_DIR=/root/iptables-1.4.0/extensions/
lilsol:~# tc actions add action ipt -j TOS --set-tos
Maximize-Reliability
tablename: mangle hook: NF_IP_POST_ROUTING
        target: TOS set Maximize-Reliability  index 0
lilsol:~# tc actions ls action ipt

        action order 0: tablename: mangle  hook: NF_IP_POST_ROUTING
        target TOS set Maximize-Reliability
        index 2 ref 1 bind 0
// the above is what i tested
// below is what you did
lilsol:~# tc actions add action ipt -j mark --set-mark 3
/root/iptables-1.4.0/extensions/: cannot read file data: Is a directory
 failed to find target mark

bad action parsing
parse_action: bad value (5:ipt)!
Illegal "action"
Command "add" is unknown, try "tc actions help".
lilsol:~#
------------

Applying your patch ....
Seems corrupt; let me fix it up, test it and resend it to Stephen.

cheers,
jamal