On 4/21/07, Dan Johansson <Dan.Johansson@dmj.nu> wrote:
On Saturday 21 April 2007 15:53, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> On 21 April 2007, Dan Johansson wrote:
> > After upgrading gentoo-sources to 2.6.20-r6 from 2.6.19-r5 today my
> > firewall won't start (shorewall).
> >
> > The here's the error:
> > iptables: Invalid argument
> > ERROR: Command "/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state
> > ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT" Failed
> >
> > I'm getting the same errormessage when it try it by hand.
>
> When you generated the kernel, did you build all modules necessary. In this
> particlu case, ipt_state?
If you meen CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_STATE=y then yes it's compiled in (not a
module). You know of any other part that NEEDS to be activated other the the
following?
CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_ENABLED=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XTABLES=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_LIMIT=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_STATE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_QUEUE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE=y
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You found your problem, then. When you use iptables -m state, it loads the state module. Since it's not compiled as a module, it won't load. Either change it to module in the kernel or remove the -m state (I think I tried once compiling into the kernel and dropping the -m state, but it didn't work).
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