Re: Arnos firewall script

[bacam@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Brian Campbell)]

On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 01:09:56AM +0200, Jan Houstek wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Jeff Adams wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately, it looks like the limit module is broken for the
> > ultrasparcs, so you'll need to remove/modify those line to remove the
> > reference to the limit module.
> 
> Weird! Limit module (both kernel and userspace) work just fine on my
> woody-running ultrasparcs. I use to compile kernels by my own due to some
> security enhancements but I'm not aware of any changes against the
> distribution kernel which would somehow influence the limit module
> behaviour.

I had the same problems with the limit module on an ultra1.  It appears
to be an API issue:

https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=94

There's some discussion on the netfilter lists too.  I've no idea why it
would work for you though.