On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:06:56 +1000 "leon zadorin" <leonleon77@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 4/20/07, Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Use the latest Version, only. (I dont think it is a particular good idea to > > make the numbers look like kernel versions). > > > > You will only get trouble with 2.0 or 2.2 Kernels, otherwise all the tools > > will work with older kernels (not necesaryly all functions). This is true > > for net-tools, also. > > Ah cool! > > I am trying to get the third party traffic smoothing queueing > discipline (PSPacer - precise software pacer from GridMPI project) > going and I've had some bad experiences with mismatched > iproute2/kernel versions... using the latest iproute2 would be great - > I am going to give it a try right away!... > > By the way, can I then interpret (from > http://www.gridmpi.org/pspacer-2.1/usage.en.html): > > "In the FedoraCore 3 after "yum update", the kernel and the iproute2 > will have mismatching versions. You have to choose either downgrading > the kernel to version 2.6.9 or upgrading the iproute2 to version > ss050330 manually" > > As > "... or upgrading the iproute2 to LATEST version manually" ? > > Anyway - I'll try using the latest version... and see if pspacer falls > into "(not necesaryly all functions)" category :-) Any iproute incompability is an ABI bug and should be fixed. Why isn't pspacer submitted to mainline? It's GPL so if no one else does I'll give a scrub and clean and submit it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
