firewalling and Sun Netra (UltraSparc) and iptables extensions
Mike Waychison
mike-DlQxw/23Tq2aMJb+Lgu22Q at public.gmane.org
Wed Oct 6 22:30:02 UTC 2004
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Ilya Palagin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We've got some Netra's and are going to use them for services like DNS,
> firewalling, etc. I've installed Debian on it, it works just great! The only
> problem is that 64bit UltraSparc linux kernel doesn't seem to support some
> extensions for firewalling, like 'limit'. Here is an example:
>
>
>>iptables -A INPUT -m limit --limit 3600/hour --limit-burst 20 -j LOG
>
> iptables: Invalid argument
>
> I've installed the latest 2.4 and 2.6 kernels from Debian testing, the same
> problem. The reason for that is:
>
> "... because these 32-bit system call translation layer needs to translate the
> iptables entry structures for certain iptables targets..."
>
> It was posted one year ago. Does anyone have a positive result for those
> extension on Sparc since then? This issue isn't a big deal, filtering and NAT
> are working well, but I need to setup a "pre-built" firewall with web interface
> for those who has no experience with iptables, all those applications use limits.
>
> Thanks,
> Ilya.
>
Have you tried re-compiling iptables as a 64-bit target?
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