Re: [gentoo-user] Iptables

["Fabrício L. Ribeiro" <flribeiro@gmail.com>]

People,

The response is in Nelson's mail.

Thanks Nelson and thanks to all.

On 1/19/07, Pete Pardoe <pete.pardoe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan
>
> IPTables support must be compiled into the kernel.  I am not in front of my
> gentoo system so cannot help you find the location in "make menuconfig"  but
> if you poke around you should be able to locate it.
>
> Pete
>
>
> On 1/19/07, Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 January 2007 17:58, Fabrício L. Ribeiro wrote:
> > > How can I install and run iptables (with conntrack and all other
> > > modules) in a Gentoo 2006.1 box with kernel generated by genkernel?
> > >
> > > I tried "emerge iptables", but when I type "iptables -F" I get
> > > something like this:
> > >
> > > FATAL: Module ip_tables not found.
> > > iptables v1.3.5: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables
> > > who? (do you need to insmod?)
> > > Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
> >
> > genkernel uses a standard .config the first time you use it on a kernel
> > version. In the kernel sources, all the netfilter options are disabled
> > by default, and you MUST enable them via menuconfig.
> >
> > Did you perhaps omit this step?
> >
> > alan
> >
> >
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> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Pete Pardoe


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