Re: [Fwd: PPTP in 2.4.20]

[Gary Thomas <gary@chez-thomas.org>]

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 03:49, Harald Welte wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 07:08:43PM -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> > Harald,
> > 
> > I'm in a bit of a pickle here & need to get this working.  The 
> > mailing list has not come up with any ideas, so if you have any, 
> > I'd sure appreciate them.
> 
> Sorry, we've never ever had a single report about this error message.
> 
> It basically means that somebody else has already registered for the
> SO_GET_ORIGDST socket option.  I have no idea who else could be the
> culprit.  Maybe you have loaded (or statically linked into the kernel)
> one of the backwards compatibility modules for ipchains or ipfwadm?
> 

So, these modules are incompatible with "ipchains"?  I'm currently 
using a homebrew firewall based on ipchains, but if I have/need to,
I'll upgrade to one using iptables.

> Also, please make sure that the kernel and the modules are out of the
> same build, otherwise you might experience all kinds of inconsistencies
> 
> > Thanks.
> 
> > -- 
> > Gary Thomas <gary@chez-thomas.org>
> 
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> > Subject: PPTP in 2.4.20
> > From: Gary Thomas <gary@chez-thomas.org>
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> > I've tried to build kernel 2.4.20, using the patches applied
> > via patch-o-matic (thanks, Harald!)  However, I can't get the
> > PPTP modules to load.  In particular, when I try to load
> > 'ip_conntrack', I get these messages:
> > 
> > [root@hermes gthomas]# insmod ip_conntrack
> > Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-TEST/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o
> > /lib/modules/2.4.20-TEST/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> > [root@hermes gthomas]# tail /var/log/messages
> > Dec 20 07:34:31 hermes kernel: ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4094 buckets, 32752 max) - 312 bytes per conntrack
> > Dec 20 07:34:31 hermes kernel: Unable to register netfilter socket option
> > 
> > Of course, without this module loaded, I can't load any of the 
> > other [important for PPTP] ones.
> > 
> > Any help or ideas greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Gary Thomas <gary@chez-thomas.org>
> > 
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Gary Thomas <gary@chez-thomas.org>