leon zadorin wrote:
Hi all, a quick question for you about iproute2 package... I have looked at the http://developer.osdl.org/dev/iproute2/download/ for available source versions to download but cannot find one for kernel 2.6.17 (it skips from 2.6.16 to 2.6.18)... Does that mean that one can use 2.6.16 on 2.6.17 kernel?
I'm not 100% sure but iproute2 needs updates whenever the kernel API/interface changes (like new features). This means that if it doesn't change, you can use old versions with newer kernels just fine, or you are just not able to use the newer feature in the kernel, but all the other options work just fine (forwards compatible).
Picking either the 2.6.16 or the 2.6.18 should therefore both work, but generally you should always use the latest version, as they are all backwards compatible as much as can be.
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