On Saturday 21 April 2007 20:34, Mark Shields wrote:
> On 4/21/07, Dan Johansson <Dan.Johansson@dmj.nu> wrote:
> > On Saturday 21 April 2007 15:53, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > > On 21 April 2007, Dan Johansson wrote:
> > > > After upgrading gentoo-sources to 2.6.20-r6 from 2.6.19-r5 today my
> > > > firewall won't start (shorewall).
> > > >
> > > > The here's the error:
> > > > iptables: Invalid argument
> > > >    ERROR: Command "/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state
> > > > ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT" Failed
> > > >
> > > > I'm getting the same errormessage when it try it by hand.
> > >
> > > When you generated the kernel, did you build all modules necessary. In
> >
> > this
> >
> > > particlu case, ipt_state?
> >
> > If you meen CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_STATE=y then yes it's compiled in
> > (not a
> > module). You know of any other part that NEEDS to be activated other the
> > the
> > following?
> >
> > CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
> > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_ENABLED=y
> > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_SUPPORT=y
> > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK=y
> > CONFIG_NETFILTER_XTABLES=y
> > CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_LIMIT=y
> > CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_STATE=y
> > CONFIG_IP_NF_QUEUE=y
> > CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y
> > CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=y
> > CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=y
> > CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=y
> > CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE=y
> >
>
> You found your problem, then.  When you use iptables -m state, it loads the
> state module.  Since it's not compiled as a module, it won't load.  Either
> change it to module in the kernel or remove the -m state (I think I tried
> once compiling into the kernel and dropping the -m state, but it didn't
> work).

I found the problem, CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4=y has to be set as well (no need 
to compile anything as modules).

-- 
Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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