* Jan Engelhardt:

> On Sunday 2008-12-07 13:20, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>>
>>> The kernel blob never changed, because xt_connlimit was first
>>> introduced into the kernel in version 2.6.23. *ipt*_connlimit (from
>>> patch-o-matic) never found its way into the mainline kernel.
>>> So this is not an upstream bug.
>>
>>I'm not sure what you're trying to say.  Do you think that etch's
>>iptables works with connlimit in the etchnhalf kernel?  It doesn't.
>>When I encountered this bug, I wasn't using any self-compiled
>>software.
>
> I am saying that iff your kernel is an unmodified vanilla one [does
> not matter who compiled it] and your iptables is also vanilla, that
> is, if they have _not_ been modified by the distribution, you get a
> working combination.

Okay, fair enough, thanks for your analysis.  It just confused me a
bit because I was specifically reporting a bug in a Debian-modified
iptables/kernel combiniation.



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