Subject: Re: [IPROUTE PATCH v2] iproute2: act_ipt fix xtables breakage on older versions.

From: Alexander Duyck <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 10:18:21 -0700

On 05/01/2013 07:21 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> On 13-05-01 09:47 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>
>> So now i am wondering how the FSCK this thing even compiled.
>
> Mystery solved. Man, this idea of keeping up with the distros and
> iptables variants is a little insane.
> Debian's setup ends up using m_ipt.c for anything less than iptable
> 1.4.11. Kudos to the debian iproute maintainer.
> Fedora on the other hand seems to going to m_xt.c
> (This is why i asked for your Config earlier).
> In any case, your patch is correct. So i will go sign off on it;
> its just nobody else had to deal with that (or reported it).
>
> Thanks for your patience Alex.
>
> cheers,
> jamal
>

No problem.  Just glad to have that patch off of my backlog of things to
get upstream.

Thanks,

Alex