From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rob Sterenborg" Subject: Re: Iptables command failed Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:29:24 +0200 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <001801c41d43$99a8b000$1202a8c0@admin> References: <20040408071811.94845.qmail@web61010.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org > I have downloaded iptables-1.2.9 from netfilter.org and > installed using make and make install commands after > compiling the kernel with network packet filtering > (replaces ipchains) option having value yes Did you patch the kernel with a new Patch-O-Matic (also from the Netfilter website) before you configured/compiled it ? I suppose iptables-1.2.9 requires symbols not yet in an unpatched kernel. > > iptables -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -p icmp -j DROP > > > > i got the following error > > > > /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: > > unresolved symbol nf_register_sockopt_Rsmp_f5985dce Gr, Rob