From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Nishit Shah <nishit@elitecore.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iptables error
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:38:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BBF039.6090501@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003501c90aa0$59d583a0$0d808ae0$@com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-01 13:38 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 [this message]
2008-09-02 8:57 ` Nishit Shah
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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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