[Jool-list] jool: unrecognized option `--iptables'

[Alberto Leiva]

This is the bug: https://github.com/NICMx/Jool/issues/247

It's a kernel panic that seems to happen after several months of
continuous runtime. Only one user appears to have run into it so far.

This is, of course, assuming you have version 3.5.6.

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 3:19 PM Alberto Leiva <ydahhrk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Would that cover the userspace tool or the kernel module, or both?
>
> Both.
>
> (You can print your Jool version by running `jool --version`.)
>
> > For OpenWRT master, which means having to run a nightly snapshot on
> > your production router, or was it updated for 18.06 also?
>
> You have a point. I don't really know. Let me check the changelog, see
> if the "critical" bug is relevant or not.
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 2:57 PM Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2019-11-26 at 14:46 -0600, Alberto Leiva wrote:
> > > If it was released on January 2018, then that's a very old version of
> > > Jool.
> >
> > I see.
> >
> > > It's probably version 3.5.6, which is currently striked ([0]),
> > > which means it probably has known critical bugs.
> >
> > Would that cover the userspace tool or the kernel module, or both?
> >
> > > You can download the 3.5 documentation at [1], but you'd probably be
> > > better off updating. I believe the OpenWRT package was updated a few
> > > weeks ago.
> >
> > For OpenWRT master, which means having to run a nightly snapshot on
> > your production router, or was it updated for 18.06 also?  This:
> >
> > https://openwrt.org/packages/table/start?dataflt%5BName_pkg-dependencies*%7E%5D=jool
> >
> > seems to indicate that for currently stable OpenWRT, I have the most
> > recent package.
> >
> > > If it proves tricky to update, you might need to update
> > > your OpenWRT.
> >
> > 18.06 is the current stable release.  It's not really acceptable to put
> > a nightly snapshot onto a production router.
> >
> > I guess I may just be out of luck.
> >
> > b.
> >