Re: Is p-o-m still the correct thing to use?

["Brian Mearns" <mearns.b@gmail.com>]

No, I don't have any TARPIT modules in either folder. Does that means
I have to patch the kernel? because I thought xtables didn't require
that. Or is there a way to just copy it in?

Thanks,
-Brian

ArcosCom Linux User wrote:
>
> Has you the kernel module for TARPIT (look for it into kernel modules,
> usually into /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/net/netfilter or
> .../net/ipv4/netfilter).
>
> Or perhaps the problem was that you have the "ipt" version and the "xt"
> version and there is a problem with them at the same time.
>
> Regards
>
> El Vie, 29 de Agosto de 2008, 2:37, Brian Mearns escribió:
>>
>> Thanks for the help Jan and Andrew. I've got xtables (combined) and it
>> built and installed fine. When I run iptables --version, it matches
>> what's given in the versions file in the source distribution. My problem
>> is that the TARPIT target doesn't seem to be recognized. When I try to
>> add a rule with the TARPIT target, it says "iptables: No
>> chain/target/match by that name". I've tried using rules that work
>> otherwise, for instance, changing from DROP to TARPIT, and it still
>> doesn't work, so it's not the rest of the rule that is the problem.
>>
>> I found libxt_TARPIT.so in /usr/local/libexec/xtables/. Is it in the
>> wrong spot or something? Also, my service runs from /sbin/iptables, but
>> this is soft linked to /usr/local/sbin/iptables: could this be part of
>> the problem? I did this so my package manager doesn't overwrite it any
>> point, but maybe it was a bad idea?
>>
>> Any help would be great.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Brian
>>
>> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tuesday 2008-07-29 06:25, Brian Mearns wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot for the help, Andrew. The iptables source I have
>>>> doesn't have a configure script...oh, but it does have an autogen
>>>> script. I guess I was probably supposed to use that first. But it's
>>>> a moot point, apparently, because of xtables, so I will be
>>>> switching to that.
>>>
>>> Released tarballs should have configure; for autogen, you usually
>>> need (even more) developer tools than you do without, like
>>> autoconf, automake, and the other autowhatevers.
>>>
>>> No moot point; iptables still is, as of today, the name of the
>>> userspace package and control program.
>>
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