From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Raffaele Brancaleoni Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 09:20:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] ipchains: Protocol unavailable Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: lartc@vger.kernel.org "Brian T.Johnson" wrote: > I get an ipchains: protocol unavailable whenever I try to use it. I used = the > ipchains RPM that came with the Mandrake 8.0 CD, so I assume it's not an > install prob. Running the 2.4.3 kernel. Can anyone tell me howto fix this? > > (Please don't say I have to recompile the kernel....Please don't say I ha= ve > to recompile the kernel....Please don't say I have to recompile the > kernel....) > > Thanks, > Brian Ipchains does not work anymore with 2.4.x kernels, you have to install "ipt= ables" instead. It's linked to the switch to netfilters in the kernel. I saw in the first r= elease of 2.4.x kernels a compatibility modules which seems to have been removed in 2.4.6. So the best things to do is to switch to iptables. Hope this will help, Raff. -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Raffaele Brancaleoni Email : s940195@student.ulg.ac.be Licence en Informatique Universit=E9 de Li=E8ge - Belgique ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Rout= ing/