deprecated message in dmesg

[Tom Horsley]

This cryptic nonsense shows up in the output from dmesg:

automatic filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables has been deprecated. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.

So how would a mere mortal know if he needs br_netfilter or not?

[Ed Greshko]

On 08/16/15 09:29, Tom Horsley wrote:
> This cryptic nonsense shows up in the output from dmesg:
>
> automatic filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables has been deprecated. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
>
> So how would a mere mortal know if he needs br_netfilter or not?

Is this the only entry in dmesg output that you find cryptic?  :-) :-)

I suspect a mere mortal would not know.  A person that created a Bridge Interface would probably know the significance and may or may not be classified as a mere mortal.

[Tom Horsley]

On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 10:31:30 +0800
Ed Greshko wrote:
> Is this the only entry in dmesg output that you find cryptic?  :-) :-)

Nah, it is just a brand new cryptic message I haven't seen
before.

After doing some more google searches, I think this is
warning me that everything should work the way I want
it to unless I screw things up by manually turning on
the cryptic netfilter :-).

[Tom H]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Tom Horsley  wrote:
> This cryptic nonsense shows up in the output from dmesg:
>
> automatic filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables has been deprecated. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
>
> So how would a mere mortal know if he needs br_netfilter or not?

http://ebtables.netfilter.org/documentation/bridge-nf.html