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From: ihernandez@cinemasoft.com.ar
Subject: Re: PPTP NAT and iptables compilation
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:20:17 +0000
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The new compiled iptables is at /usr/local/sbin/iptables
when i try it says:

/usr/local/sbin/iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
iptables: Invalid argument


i'm not sure that patch-o-matic is really doing the right job with the
iptables patch. i mean, the user space patch.



On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:09:51PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Monday 29 March 2004 8:01 pm, ihernandez@cinemasoft.com.ar wrote:
> 
> > Hello. i have used patch-o-matic to add the pptp-nat helper module
> > kernel works fine, but userspace iptables tool fails with:
> > "iptables: Invalid argument"
> >
> > i have seen a lot of posts and the solution is to compile the
> > iptables-1.2.9 tools
> > i downloaded a fresh copy from www.netfilter.org and run make
> > KERNEL_DIR=mykerneldir
> > it says:
> > Extensions found: IPv4:recent IPv6:ah IPv6:esp IPv6:frag IPv6:ipv6header
> > IPv6:hbh IPv6:dst IPv6:rt
> >
> > then i install.
> > fine, but it continues with it's problems!!!!
> > what can i do to compile the tools th right way?
> 
> Are you sure the command you've run afterwards is the newly-compiled version, 
> and not just the old one sitting somewhere in your path?
> 
> What does "ls -al `find / -name iptables`" show ?   (Those are single 
> backticks around the find command).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Antony.
> 
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