From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E72D713827A for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:21:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8CC6E21C0C8; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a57.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9707221C0BF for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:20:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a57.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a57.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1B9A208073 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 03:20:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=libertytrek.org; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s= libertytrek.org; bh=1jY5rTSiqxJES/JLkild0bpxWuQ=; b=rK5JsKbGI4oN /wPgpISzraUWkXvD/HzAlL9xBIH1Hues8FXrtjcfHJGQAhznjGaMPrwU1Qbl6Ont KJ1/nT1pWC/vQQk2jJUG7XnTxN2AKOhdUeyD5qqPAxAu9+PKvpkj8V2B8btp6KBo MMuxq6N9P5WHGRGIZalAEMBt+5Gw4W0= Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [159.63.145.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tanstaafl@libertytrek.org) by homiemail-a57.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 66EC620806D for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 03:20:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50E56952.7090103@libertytrek.org> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 06:19:46 -0500 From: Tanstaafl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)? References: <50E43853.20203@libertytrek.org> <201301021902.22880.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <50E48EBF.50706@libertytrek.org> <201301030015.22315.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201301030015.22315.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a67d0c71-0eb1-42d9-a4eb-1dbdf697f4ae X-Archives-Hash: 9f7374b60d03efac05070d32218187a6 On 2013-01-02 7:14 PM, Mick 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