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Re: Bug in 1.2.13 firewall?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
Sat Jun 15 17:50:17 1996

From: inr-linux-net@ms2.inr.ac.ru (really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: 	15 Jun 1996 22:23:19 +0400

Dennis (dennis@etinc.COM) wrote:

: I love this! No stable new kernel for over a year and you're blaming the
: board vendor
: because you don't have source......The card isnt the problem, the problem is
: that there 
: is no stable kernel that has the features you want. Dont blame the board
: vendor for that
: one. We have always promptly supported the releases...its just been soooo
: long that
: you dont remember.

Nobody blames you for bad support. Just publish documentation
and your card will work for all Linux patch levels, not depending
on their "stability". And you will able to forget about sk_buff
stuff and have a lot of spare time for inventing an alternative.

BTW. You hate mbuf's, you hate sk_buff's. What can you propose instead?
     Is it another ET's secret?

Alexey Kuznetsov.


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