PSARC/2008/250 IPv6 NAT for IPFilter
yifan evan xu - Sun Microsystems - Beijing China
Evan.Xu at sun.com
Wed Apr 23 00:59:34 PDT 2008
Gary Winiger wrote:
>>> I'm still confused on how changing the size of structures
>>> is mitigated in a patch release. What am I misunderstanding?
>>>
>>>
>> The IPFILTER_VERSION (see ipnat(7i)) is used to keep track of user
>>
>
> So part of this case, so far unstated is that IPFILTER_VERSION
> is be incremented. That seems pretty important to mention
> up front.
>
>> There is no new interface exported in this case. The one-pager comment
>> states that stability levels are required for new exported interface.
>> Correct me if I was wrong. The stabilities (External Stable) of
>> ipnat(7i) and the header files are defined in:
>>
>> Are these interfaces Committed?
>>
>>
>>
According to your advice, I exported IPFILTER_VERSION as a Committed
interface, as well as "netinet/ipl.h" as an Uncommitted interface. See
the interface table in the updated spec. Stability level is changed to
Committed for ipnat(7i), and I also appended the changes to
ipnat.conf(4) in the appendix.
Yifan
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