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The old database format was in unknown byteorder -- if you run the converter program yourself, you got a host order file, but if you downloaded the preprocessed DB file (geoipdb.bin), you got a little-endian file. Use a new database format. Instead of having an index and a DB file, do away with the index and let the filesystem do the indexing, using one file per country. Also access the database files with a known endianess type. The converter script now produces two distinct variants (especially needed for IA-64). All of this reduces the touched code by half.
Xtables-addons ============== Xtables-addons is the proclaimed successor to patch-o-matic(-ng). It contains extensions that were not accepted in the main Xtables package. Xtables-addons is different from patch-o-matic in that you do not have to patch or recompile either kernel or Xtables(iptables). But please see the INSTALL file for the minimum requirements of this package. External extensions =================== The program "xa-download-more" can be used to download more extensions from 3rd parties into the source tree. The URLs are listed in the "sources" file. If the "sources" file contains an entry like http://foobar.org/xa/ xa-download-more will inspect http://foobar.org/xa/xa-index.txt for files to download. That file may contain foobar.tar.bz2 and xa-download-more will then retrieve and unpack http://foobar.org/xa/foobar.tar.bz2. Files that should be contained in the tarball are an mconfig and Kbuild files to control building the extension, libxt_foobar.c for the userspace extension and xt_foobar.c for the kernel extension. mconfig.foobar extensions/Kbuild.foobar extensions/libxt_foobar.c extensions/libxt_foobar.man extensions/xt_foobar.c extensions/xt_foobar.h