Re: testing installation of conntrack command line tool

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

Alan Ezust wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 October 2006 15:04, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>> Alan Ezust wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 04 October 2006 12:48, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>>>> Alan Ezust wrote:
>>>>> Hi - i'm trying out the "conntrack" program for my first time.
>>>>> It compiles and runs, but when I try to do
>>>>>
>>>>> conntrack -L conntrack
>>>>>
>>>>> it shows me nothing.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack I can see lots of log lines there.
>>>>> Should the conntrack -L conntrack show me pretty much the same thing?
>>>>>
>>>>> What's the best way to test that conntrack is working properly?
>>>> Please check that ip_conntrack_netlink is loaded, old kernel do not load
>>>> it on demand.
>>> I'm using kernel 2.6.16.29.
>>>
>>> These kernel options are set:
>>>
>>> CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK=y
>>> CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK_QUEUE=y
>>> CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK_LOG=y
>>> CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK_NETLINK=y
>>>
>>> Are you saying I should also add a
>>> CONFIG_IP_CONNTRACK_NETLINK flag in the .config  or something else?
>> No, people usually compile ip_conntrack_netlink as module, and I wanted
>> to make sure that the module was loaded (modprobe ip_conntrack_netlink)
>> but since you compiled it built-in.
> 
> What's the difference between IP_NF_CONNTRACK_NETLINK and 
> IP_CONNTRACK_NETLINK? Are they different modules or is one the new name for 
> the other?

you're referring to the same thing. This problem that you're observing
is freak. Please check that ctnetlink is correctly registered.

# dmesg | grep ctnetlink
ctnetlink v0.90: registering with nfnetlink.

Send me also your .config file just to have more information.

>> Could you tell me what version of conntrack/libnetfilter_conntrac are
>> you using?
> 
> conntrack 1.00beta2
> libnetfilter_conntrack-0.0.31/
> libnfnetlink-0.0.16/

Please, try with an updated version from netfilter's SVN

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