Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall config problem

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Monday, 12 November 2018 10:19:24 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Monday, November 12, 2018 11:11:52 AM CET Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Morning all,
> > 
> > When emerging shorewall-5.2.1.1 I get an error from the kernel settings
> > check:
> > 
> > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4:   is not set when it should be.
> > 
> > This is with gentoo-sources-4.19.1. And indeed there is no such kernel
> > parameter:
> > 
> > $ grep CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK /usr/src/linux/.config
> > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK=m		<<< Note
> > # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK is not set
> > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_SECMARK=y
> > # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_ZONES is not set
> > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_PROCFS=y
> > # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_EVENTS is not set
> > # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_TIMEOUT is not set
> > # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_TIMESTAMP is not set
> > # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_LABELS is not set
> > # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_AMANDA is not set
> > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_FTP=m
> > # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_H323 is not set
> > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IRC=m
> > # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_NETBIOS_NS is not set
> > # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_SNMP is not set
> > # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_PPTP is not set
> > # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_SANE is not set
> > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_SIP=m
> > # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_TFTP is not set
> > 
> > On another box with gentoo sources 4.14.78 I get this:
> > 
> > $ grep CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IP /usr/src/linux/.config
> > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4=y
> > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV6=y
> > 
> > So far I've been ignoring the error, assuming that the entry I've noted
> > above now combines IPV4 and IPV6.
> > 
> > Does the panel think this is worth a bug report against shorewall?
> 
> Does it show up when you search for that config-item from within "make
> menuconfig"?
> Not all config-items end up in the config-file, especially if pre-requisites
> are disabled themselves.

Nope.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.