From: "Nishit Shah" <nishit@elitecore.com>
To: "'Patrick McHardy'" <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: iptables error
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:27:46 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001101c90cd9$f84e08f0$e8ea1ad0$@com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48BBF039.6090501@trash.net>
Thanks :)
Rgds,
Nishit Shah.
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick McHardy [mailto:kaber@trash.net]
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 7:08 PM
To: Nishit Shah
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iptables error
Nishit Shah wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using 2.6.16.13 kernel in smp configuration. Machine is working
> as a gateway and frequent iptables commands are fired as users logged in
and
> logged out.
>
> I got following error in between
>
> [root@manage /root]# iptables -nvx -L INPUT
> ERROR: 7 not a valid target)
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> So, I tried to flush INPUT and got following
>
> [root@manage /root]# iptables -F INPUT
> iptables: Too many levels of symbolic links
>
> following is a message I got in /var/log/messages
>
> Aug 26 14:38:30 1219741710 kernel: iptables: loop hook 1 pos 0 00000022.
That kernel version has an iptables locking bug that might
lead to corruption. Latest 2.6.16 version has this fixed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-02 8:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-30 13:00 iptables error Nishit Shah
2008-09-01 13:38 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-09-02 8:57 ` Nishit Shah [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-06-25 12:56 iptables ERROR Ritesh Majumdar
2009-06-25 13:39 ` Richard Horton
2009-06-25 13:39 ` Richard Horton
2009-06-25 14:00 ` Ritesh Majumdar
2009-06-25 15:11 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-06-25 18:08 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2006-01-20 16:36 Iptables error [Was: 2.6.16-rc1-mm2] Harald Welte
2006-01-20 16:43 ` Benoit Boissinot
2006-01-20 16:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-20 19:32 ` Harald Welte
2006-01-20 19:46 ` Iptables error David S. Miller
2006-01-21 11:05 ` Harald Welte
2006-01-20 20:02 ` David S. Miller
2006-01-20 16:23 Iptables error [Was: 2.6.16-rc1-mm2] Jiri Slaby
2006-01-20 18:13 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-01-20 19:52 ` Iptables error David S. Miller
2004-08-25 12:56 Jason Opperisano
2004-08-25 19:25 ` Jose Maria Lopez
2004-08-25 8:19 Paulo Andre
2004-01-15 0:08 IPTables error Jerry Rasmussen
2004-01-15 0:17 ` Antony Stone
2002-11-12 0:07 iptables error jelenkovic
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