[gentoo-user] Can't get iptables to work on AMD64, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10

[Michael Kjorling <michael@kjorling.com>]

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My system is AMD64, Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 (from gentoo-sources),
iptables 1.3.2 and generally up-to-date. I can't seem to get iptables
to work. Netfilter support is compiled into the kernel (compiling it
as a module and loading that gave the same result), as evidenced by:

$ zgrep -i iptables /proc/config.gz
CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y
$ 

but iptables refuses to run:

# iptables -L -n
FATAL: Module ip_tables not found.
iptables v1.3.2: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
# 

`iptables -X filter' gives me the same error message.

Any suggestions as for how to get packet filtering working (including
kernel configuration options to try) would be greatly appreciated.

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