getting iptables into embedded kernel

[Klaus Wacker <klaus_gr_W_kl_Acker@web.de>]

>> How to get iptables into a ppc kernel (2.6, netfilter
>> enabled) and where to store what to have functionality from the
>> start? I used NO_SHARED_LIBS=1
>> I am able to download start the kernel, but do not find iptables.
> 
> AFAIK you cannot.
> Iptables is a *user*space utility to configure the Netfilter framework
> and I don't see how you'd compile that into the kernel.
> 
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> Ok, I am a little confused with kernel modules. Anyhow I would like to
> do something like this here (from the install):
> "
> 4) If you want to build a statically linked version of the iptables
>    binary, without the need for loading the plugins at runtime (e.g.
>    for an embedded device or router-on-a-disk), please use
> 
> 	% make NO_SHARED_LIBS=1
> "
> 
> and I get a rather large executable binary (700kB). But I
> can't execute this nor do I know how to make it run inside my target.
> Klaus

>This is something different from compiling things "into" the kernel.
>You've just built a statically linked iptables binary: those binaries
>don't need external libraries, which is why they are larger because the
>functionality in the libraries must be present in the binary to actually
>make it standalone.

>So, you still get a binary called iptables which must be run from some
>shell (I guess).


>Rob

Yes, did that and then I try to run it but it only says "cannot execute binary file"
even I can execute other files.
Klaus



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