Hello everyone, I have released “Xtables” 1.5.1, which is a package of my ongoing iptables development¹ that I did lately. Patrick McHardy was not available last week to merge patches due to higher powers, so I branched off the iptables subversion trunk into git since quilting on top of svn was not so fun. Xtables, that is the goal sought, will merge and unify arptables and ebtables² as becomes possible. What will now become of the iptables and xtables packages? Xtables clearly is "more recent" than the latest iptables svn, but I would not want to do Xtables as a continuous parallel fork to iptables³. Maybe merge⁴ or declare it the new official thing -- who knows. Additionally, “Xtables-addons” 1.5.1 was released, which is supposed to supersede patch-o-matic(-ng). As with POM, this package contains not-so-officially-approved extensions. But different from POM is that it does not (and will not) contain any "patches" that would require patching the kernel. Just extensions that can be compiled and then run instantly. Furthermore, I would like to make aware of “Writing your own Xtables module” document, which describes the code needed to get started with your own xtables modules. It is based upon Nicolas's earlier "Writing your own iptables module" . . . . . . . http://jengelh.hopto.org/documents/Writing_Xtables.pdf URLs: tarballs . . . http://dev.computergmbh.de/files/xtables/ gitweb . . . . http://dev.computergmbh.de/gitweb.cgi?p=xtables . . . . . . . http://dev.computergmbh.de/gitweb.cgi?p=xtables-addons gitclone . . . git://dev.computergmbh.de/xtables . . . . . . . git://dev.computergmbh.de/xtables-addons SRPM for reference how to build it in an automatic environment . . . . . . . http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-jengelh/SRPMS/ RPMs (SUSE). . http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-jengelh/SUSE-10.3/ ¹It is supposed to be stable. ²FAQ: On a source base. User-visible commands like ip6tables remain. ³Read: merging forth and back between iptables-svn and xtables-git = not good. ⁴There were talks about moving the iptables subversion repository to git, but I could not wait for you guys, sorry ;-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
