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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-11-23 09:48:32 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-11-23 09:48:32 +0000
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Update.
1998-11-21  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/netinet/ip_fw.h: Removed.  There are too
	many differences between the Linux 2.0 and 2.1 versions of this
	file and it's too difficult to convert all calls.  The file should
	only be needed by the ipfw program which has to take care of the
	correct kernel version and include files.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Dist: Remove netinet/ip_fw.h.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile (sysdep_headers): Likewise.
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@@ -1094,6 +1094,14 @@ versions defined this but it was an error since it does not make much sense
 when thinking about it.  The standards describing the System V IPC functions
 define it this way and therefore programs must be adopted.
 
+??	Why has <netinet/ip_fw.h> disappeared?
+
+{AJ} The corresponding Linux kernel data structures and constants are
+totally different in Linux 2.0 and Linux 2.1.  This situation has to be
+taken care in user programs using the firewall structures and therefore
+those programs (ipfw is AFAIK the only one) should deal with this problem
+themselves.
+
 
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