[ale] patch-o-matic-ng question?

[Doug McNash]

This is from memory which is not as good as it was when I was younger...

Each of the patches may apply to either/and/or any of the kernels.  Some
are applied to the iptables source.  Many are unnecessary for recent
code as they have already been updated. When I ran the script it gives
you the info on the patch and the option to apply it.  The first time
thru I chose to apply most of them all and it screwed up the source
pretty badly.  Second time around I only applied the three or four I
wanted, mainly string matching and the TARPIT target.  I suggest you do
the same and be very selective.

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 14:26, Chris Woodfield wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking to install the record-rpc patch from the patch-o-matic 
> distribution in order to permit easier firewalling of NFS traffic. On the 
> netfilter-org site, there's the latest patch-o-matic tarball, with a 
> release date of Dec 2003, and patch-o-matic-ng, which appears to be in 
> current development.
> 
> Unfortunately, there's very little documentation either on the 
> netfilter.org site or anywhere else that google can find that explains the 
> difference between the two (other than "ng is newer"). Can someone fill me 
> in here? Specifically, I need to verify that at least one of these supports 
> the 2.6.x kernels (I'm on 2.6.7).
> 
> Also, I attempted to run the runme script from the ng tarball, and I 
> noticed that it asks for the root of the kernel source base 
> (/usr/src/linux), but also asks for the iptables codebase (default 
> location: /usr/src/iptables). Is there a source tree inside the kernel for 
> this I can point it to, or do I need to have the source code for the 
> iptables app available? 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Chris 
> 
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