Your message dated Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:43:51 +0100 with message-id <caj75kxzvnyxahoeezb9vjdbbo+mekpgojdu7b-r6goqk6c_...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line Re: ebtables: 32-bit package is not compatible with 64-bit kernel has caused the Debian Bug report #614746, regarding ebtables: 32-bit package is not compatible with 64-bit kernel to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: ebtables Version: 2.0.9.2-2 Severity: normal Hi, I am running a 32-bit (i386) userland on top of the 64-bit (amd64) kernel. In this configuration, ebtables fails to work: root # lsmod | grep ebtable ebtable_filter 1599 0 ebtables 13885 1 ebtable_filter x_tables 12685 2 ebtables,ip_tables root # ebtables -L The kernel doesn't support the ebtables 'filter' table. The direct cause is that ebtables passes wrongly-sized structures to the kernel, which returns EINVAL, which in turn causes the (confusing) message above. I checked the source, and it appears that the ebtables user-kernel interface uses datastructures containing actual pointers (not offsets, like iptables). As both the kernel and ebtables use their own idea of a pointer, ebtables fails. ebtables does seem to contain code to cope with a mixed 32/64-bit environment, by defining KERNEL_64_USERSPACE_32 and EBT_MIN_ALIGN during compilation, however the implementation is partial (at least from an x86_64 perspective), and therefore not functional. In addition, it would make the resulting binary fail on top of a 32-bit kernel... Regards, Rogier. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ebtables depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib Versions of packages ebtables recommends: ii iptables 1.4.8-3 administration tools for packet fi ebtables suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Hi Rogier, True, I forgot to test this with my last upload. It's now working smoothly. Closing the bug. -- William
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