Naive questions

[Derrik Pates]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Tal Dayan wrote:

> We are currently converting from ipchains to iptables. Actually, we were
> happy with iptables but the new versions of Linux has a memory/cpu leak when
> you use ipchains, possibly in the ipchains compatability layer of netfilter.
> We hope that the bug is not shared by iptables.

This bug has been discussed on the list. Check the list archives, recent
versions of the kernel-side code for the ipchains personality module may
have that bug fixed (I don't use it much myself, so I highly recommend
searching the list archives to be sure).

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