[pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#874375: ebtables: 32 bit binary cannot communicate with 64 bit kernel on arm platform

[Tomas Janousek]

Hello,

On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 10:49:34PM +0800, Wang Shanker wrote:
> Armhf version ebtables binary cannot communicate with arm64 kernel. It can
> be reproduced on qemu. The detailed versions of components are listed below:
> 
> ebtables: 2.0.10.4-3(armhf)
> kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-arm64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.30-2 (2017-06-12)

Same thing now happens even on x86 with ebtables:i386=2.0.10.4-5 and
linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64=4.16.12-1.

(Fortunately nothing depends on the i386 version of ebtables so apt install
ebtables:amd64 fixed this for me, even though most of the system is still
i386.)

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Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Pivník, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/