From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBuRf-0000eN-D4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:03:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8ADBE06F9; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:02:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dcnode-02.unlimitedmail.net (unknown [212.145.239.58]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE0E3E06F3 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:02:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ppp.zz ([137.204.208.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by dcnode-02.unlimitedmail.net (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m07G1oEV002073 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:01:50 +0100 From: Etaoin Shrdlu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ip_conntrack - is it missing Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:09:47 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <87sl1aiex0.fsf@newsguy.com> <4781B737.5030003@j-schmitz.net> <87ejctoe2w.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87ejctoe2w.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801071709.47388.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> X-UnlimitedMail-MailScanner-From: shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 787a1668-259d-4e0c-94fb-6c57a5d6682d X-Archives-Hash: 43e151d85ed528fcb9e3fe5634efd854 On Monday 7 January 2008, reader@newsguy.com wrote: > I see: > grep -i ^[^#].*conntrack /usr/src/linux/.config > > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_ENABLED=m > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK=m > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK=y > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_SECMARK=y > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_EVENTS=y > CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNTRACK=m > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4=m > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_PROC_COMPAT=y > > > But do NOT see what that HOWTO refers to (/proc/net/ip_conntrack) Sorry for the dumb question...you have compiled conntrack as a module, but is that module (or modules) actually loaded (you can check with lsmod)? If not, loading the module should also create the file in /proc. The module should be called nf_conntrack (load it with modprobe nf_conntrack). If not, look into /lib/modules/`uname -r`, look for modules with conntrack in the name, and load them. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list