Re: Iptables-1.2.9/10 compile failure with linux 2.6.7 headers

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The current linux libc headers package is much more frequently updated and closely matches released kernels. LLH is a sanitized linux headers package and is currently based on 2.6.6 headers.

Yes you can build iptables on 2.6.6 for a 2.6.7 kernel. I have built iptables once or twice a year and built kernels once or twice a week. Iptables continues to work fine.

David

Andrew Walrond wrote:

Hi David,

On Friday 18 Jun 2004 17:10, David Ford wrote:


Iptables should be using linux-libc-headers headers instead of kernel
headers.



Is this acquired knowledge, or new Netfilter policy? How dependant are the iptables tools on the specifc kernel running?

Ie
Can I build iptables for use on 2.6.7 kernel with 2.6.6 linux-libc-headers? (probably)


But could I build iptables for 2.6.7 kernel with 2.4.20 linux-libc-headers? (probably not?)

The INSTALL file states specifically to use KERNEL_DIR=<<where-you-built-your-kernel>>

Andrew


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