On 2/9/11 5:36 PM, Steven Jan Springl wrote:

>> Do you plan to do additional testing of 4.4.17-RC1?
> There is only one oustanding issue that I know of.
> 
> There are still a large number of iptables targets (CHECKSUM, CLASSIFY, 
> CONNSECMARK  etc) that if specified as the chain name in an accounting rule 
> will cause an iptables-restore error.
> 
> If you are happy to live with this situation then my testing of 4.4.167-RC1 
> is 
> complete.
> 
> If not, I will get a defintive list together for iptables, iptables6 & 
> xtables-addons. 

As I mentioned earlier, the Netfilter team are always busy inventing new
targets; so we'll never be foolproof on all systems. I've updated the
accounting manpages with advice to include lower-case, digits, '-' or
'_' in accounting chain names. I think that is enough.

Thanks!

-Tom
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