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From: Jorge Davila <davila@nicaraguaopensource.com>
Subject: Re: problem on iptables
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:11:27 -0600
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To: Peng Yang <pey204@gmail.com>, netfilter@lists.netfilter.org

You don't need any patch to put to work netfilter/iptables.

I'm pretty sure that is disabled in the kernel configuration.

Jorge.

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 14:48:30 -0400
  "Peng Yang" <pey204@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> In our current kernel, iptables doesn't work due to the error "can't
> initialize iptables table `filter'".
> I suspect that the netfilter is not turned on in the kernel.
> We download the v2.6.20.11 sourcecode and try to do a menuconfig but
> the networking packet filtering framework does not provide any option
> for us to select to turn on netfilter. Can anyone let me know what patch 
>files
> I need to add to allow me to choose this netfilter feature?
> 
> thanks
> peng
> 
> 

Jorge Isaac Davila Lopez
Nicaragua Open Source
+505 430 5462
davila@nicaraguaopensource.com