[arch-dev-public] [signoff] iptables 1.4.12-1

[Ronald van Haren]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Ronald van Haren <pressh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Op 23 jul. 2011 20:07 schreef "Dan McGee" <dpmcgee at gmail.com> het volgende:
>
>>
>> Upstream version bump, but much more worthy of testing due to the
>> initscripts getting an overhaul.
>>
>> * No longer do we do manual clearing of rules, instead, empty state
>> files for each table are used by iptables-restore now to clear out the
>> tables. Please test stop/start/restarting of both iptables and
>> ip6tables to make sure it works as appropriate.
>> * Fix https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24466 and resetting of
>> ip_forward variable; this is now a deprecated feature in this package
>> and we will never touch this value when stopping iptables.
>>
>> -Dan
>
> You should have enabled static libs, there is a bug report for this. I'll
> upload a new version when I'm at home.
>
> Ronald

Never mind, it is not needed. Seems to be some upstream bug in the
previous version which didn't show up when you enabled static libs.
1.4.12 is fine so it seems.

Should we add a default value for ipv6 packet forwarding to sysctl.conf?

Ronald