From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Saravanan Chanemouganandam Subject: modprobe ip_tables problem Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:25:21 +0100 Message-ID: <200712271525.22491.schane@osmozis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org Hi all, Can anybody tell me, why iptable tries to load ip_tables even though it is compilled and built statically into the kernel. I prefer not to build as modules to have very small size root filesystem on my flash memory and therefore, I built everything into kernel. On perofrming the following rule setup, it throws modprobe error. cm-debian:~# iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o br_wan -j MASQUERADE modprobe: module ip_tables not found. modprobe: failed to load module ip_tables modprobe: module ip_tables not found. modprobe: failed to load module ip_tables modprobe: module ip_tables not found. modprobe: failed to load module ip_tables modprobe: module ip_tables not found. modprobe: failed to load module ip_tables All the supporting netfitler tables are built directly into the kernel. The mailing list discussion says no need to perform modprobe ip_tables, modprobe iptable_nat, modprobe ipt_MASQUERADE etc., if it is built into kernel. But, still I face the modprobe problem. can anybody precise why I keep getting this error?. thanks Sara