How to upgrade iptables

How to upgrade iptables

[boka]

Hi !

After sucessfully build of new version of iptables, i have checked if 
the rules are ok to new version. My previous version was 1.2.10.

root@qw:~/iptables/sources/iptables-1.2.11# ./iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target     prot opt source               destination
iptables: target `standard' v1.2.10 (I'm v1.2.11).

i dont know what to do next - there is no upgrade procedure in source docs.

greetz
boka

Re: How to upgrade iptables

[Antony Stone]

On Tuesday 29 June 2004 3:44 pm, boka wrote:

> Hi !
>
> After sucessfully build of new version of iptables, i have checked if
> the rules are ok to new version. My previous version was 1.2.10.

Did you previously build 1.2.10 on your system in the same way?

If not (eg: if you installed one from a package manager, and you build the 
other from source), then you may have two different binaries (plus various 
bits of libraries) in more than one place on your system.

As a quick check, what does "whereis iptables" suggest?

For a longer list of files involved, see whether "locate iptables" seems to 
show duplicates etc.

If you do have more than one version installed, I suggest removing the older 
one (using the same method as was used to install it), and then reinstalling 
the new one.

If you built them both from source, make sure the install paths are the same 
on both occasions.

I've commonly seen iptables in either /sbin or /usr/sbin, and sometimes even 
/usr/local/sbin

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Antony.

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Re: How to upgrade iptables

[Askar Ali Khan]

yes use the same method if for remving iptable (binary package) you
used to installed it for example if it is RH or FC then use rpm -e
iptables or removepkg iptables (for slack)
and other method for other distros.
:)


On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:02:37 +0100, Antony Stone
<antony@soft-solutions.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 29 June 2004 3:44 pm, boka wrote:
> 
> > Hi !
> >
> > After sucessfully build of new version of iptables, i have checked if
> > the rules are ok to new version. My previous version was 1.2.10.
> 
> Did you previously build 1.2.10 on your system in the same way?
> 
> If not (eg: if you installed one from a package manager, and you build the
> other from source), then you may have two different binaries (plus various
> bits of libraries) in more than one place on your system.
> 
> As a quick check, what does "whereis iptables" suggest?
> 
> For a longer list of files involved, see whether "locate iptables" seems to
> show duplicates etc.
> 
> If you do have more than one version installed, I suggest removing the older
> one (using the same method as was used to install it), and then reinstalling
> the new one.
> 
> If you built them both from source, make sure the install paths are the same
> on both occasions.
> 
> I've commonly seen iptables in either /sbin or /usr/sbin, and sometimes even
> /usr/local/sbin
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Antony.
> 
> --
> Most people have more than the average number of legs.
> 
>                                                      Please reply to the list;
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> 
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