Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away.

[Andy Lutomirski]

Albert Cahalan wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 15:33, Chris Friesen wrote:
>
> > Albert Cahalan wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Who is doing a 32-bit userland on x86-64, and WTF for?
> > > Why do they not also run a 32-bit kernel?
> >
> > Backwards compatibility?  Desire to run binary-only 32-bit software as well as 
> > 64-bit software on the same kernel?
>
>
> Nope. For that, you run 99% 64-bit, including iptables.
> That's what is typically done. So you'd have a 32-bit
> OpenOffice maybe, and everything else is 64-bit.
>
> I'm still not seeing a need to run an x86-64 kernel
> with an i386 iptables.

Easy migration: take your fully-set-up server image, throw in an Opteron 
with 16GB RAM, and boot a 64-bit kernel.  As long as you don't need more 
than 4GB/program, you're set.  Except your firewall is broken.

--Andy
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