Re: initial (im)port of ipt_ACCOUNT, ipt_pknock and ipt_stealth to xtables-addons-1.17

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On Monday 2009-08-31 17:27, Thomas Jarosch wrote:

>Hello Jan Rafaj,
>
>On Thursday, 27. August 2009 17:53:33 Jan Rafaj wrote:
>> - files have all been renamed from {lib,}ipt_* to {lib,}xt_*
>>    (I know, they are still IPv4-only projects, but thats the policy
>>    of Xt-a)
>
>Thanks for your effort.
>
>ipt_ACCOUNT is IPv4 only. Giving it a name of xt_ACCOUNT
>will give the impression it works for IPv6, right?

"What's in a name"

Users should not look at names to see what what can be used with. 
xt_osf, xt_TPROXY and xt_socket have no v6 mode either (besides recent 
submissions). ipt_ and so on have been remnants from before 
x_tables.c was added around 2.6.17.

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