Re: [gentoo-user] Iptables

["Pete Pardoe" <pete.pardoe@gmail.com>]

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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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