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in gentoo, a fresh install, I get this error message while trying to do anything except display the help in ipatbles:
modprobe: Can't locate module ip_tables
iptables v1.2.8: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
I am using the 2.4.20 kernel, and iptables worked fine with the same kernel version in redhat 9. I even emerged a new version of iptables, and the error message still comes up. what could be the problem?
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did you use genkernel to compile the kernel.. or did you do it yourself?
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2004-02-02, 11:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 2004-02-02, 11:07 PM by InaVirtualGhetto.)
ok.... i made menuconfiog, added network packet filtering, then added iptables support. i then enabled everything that came up after i added iptables supporty. i then
make dep && make bzImage modules modules_install
well, that didnt work. kernel compile errors...
so i copied the .config to /root and then:
make mrproper
make clean
copied the .config back, then
make menuconfig
just to make sure it was right
then
make dep && make bzImage modules modules_install
it went off without a hitch...
then i mounted /boot and backed up the old bzImage and copied the new bzImage from /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot/bzImage and updated my boot loader to conform to load the new kernel.
i rebooted and it still gave me the same error as stated before.
so, I emerged iptables again. still, same error message...
I'm at a loss... there isnt any hosts.allow or hosts.deny in /etc so i cant even do that to try and secure this box... any suggestions?
