Hi Jason. > On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 19:33, James B. Hiller wrote: > > Hi! > > > > No takers? Or have I put this in the wrong forum? If I have, please > > let me know where to go with it. > > i'm not really qualified to answer this question, (which has never > stopped me before)...and hey--beggars can't be choosers... ;-) You bet. Thanks for giving it a throw. > 2.6.9-rc1 seems pretty bleeding edge... the 2.6 series has kind of > become a test branch as it is, but sheesh--that's really out there. do > you have a "gotta have it" reason to run this kernel? if not--i'd say > stick with the "release" version: 2.6.8.1... seems these kind of > compilation issues would be par-for-the-course on an "rc" kernel. With maybe one or two exceptions beginning in late 2.4.X when I started using rc's and mmX, no, clean compilation hasn't been an issue. My main reason for moving with each change is that for about a year, I've been working with a developer who's trying to get DMA-related bugs out of the switch from using SCSI emulation to having SCSI handling built into the IDE driver. Until that's done, I can't use DMA with my CD writer, where before I could. His bugfixes have been going into 2.6.7+, a bit at a time, through the mm branch. > anyways...if you must--you should probably be following the > netfilter-devel list (and linux-kernel for that matter)--check out the > post from Harald Welte (with patch): > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=netfilter-devel&m=109346594923412&w=2 Thx! I haven't been looking at netfilter-devel, since until now, it was a non-issue for me. What that particular item, and a few after it, show is that indeed there is a known issue both with NAT in general and double NAT in 2.6.9-rc1; and that the hang I'm getting is affecting others as well. So that tells me I don't need to try to report it; I'm not using a dumb netfilter configuration; and that it may get better in -rc2++. Since my DMA issue isn't done yet anyway, no harm in laying back from -rc1. I really appreciate the pointer! regards, jbh
