RE: IPTables not available

["Benny Butler" <benny.butler@nexusitg.com>]

I have a RH 7.2 box that's running iptables and has never had the kernel
recompiled.  Check 'lsmod' and make sure that ipchains is not listed.
If it is then 'rmmod ipchains' then 'insmod ip_tables'  Actually you can
skip that last command and it will load the module for you.

Hope this helps.




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Subject: Re: IPTables not available



Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:20:43 -0700
From: "Daniel Curry" <dcurry@cariocas.com>
To: "Netfilter (E-mail)" <netfilter@lists.samba.org>

On fresh RH7.2 and RH7.3 installs  IPTables executables are installed,
but will not execute.  I get Kernel errors.  Can someone please direct
me to a listing of what steps and option I need to enable this?  I wish
to put firewalling with NAT services on a machine running an Apache web
server, with PHP and Perl scripts connecting to a localhosted MySQL DB,
as well as offering sendmail, POP(S)/IMAP(S), ftp, and PPTP VPN
services.  Or a compatible ipchains script for this would also be
appreciated.

Thanks

Daniel Curry
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maybe ipchains is your problem.....
try to unload ipchains then execute your iptables rules......