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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