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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.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-02  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ 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 14:00 ` Ritesh Majumdar
2009-06-25 15:11   ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-06-25 18:08     ` Jozsef Kadlecsik

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