From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)?
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 06:19:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50E56952.7090103@libertytrek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201301030015.22315.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
On 2013-01-02 7:14 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 Jan 2013 19:47:11 Tanstaafl wrote:
>> Oh, ok - so, if I don't have any rules that use the 'mangle' command,
>> then I can safely remove mangle support from my kernel and lose the
>> mangle table altogether?
> Yes, I would think so. You can build it as a module anyway and un/not load it
> to see if iptables starts up without errors.
This is a server, so no modules support at all...
But no worries, I always keep my previous kernel when upgrading, so if
something doesn't work right, I just reboot back to the previous one...
it has saved me more than a few times...
Thanks again
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-03 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-02 13:38 [gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)? Tanstaafl
2013-01-02 18:53 ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-01-03 3:50 ` Pandu Poluan
2013-01-02 19:01 ` Mick
2013-01-02 19:47 ` Tanstaafl
2013-01-03 0:14 ` Mick
2013-01-03 11:19 ` Tanstaafl [this message]
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