Pierre, I just checked my old Woody box. I have the following modules loaded:
$ lsmod Module Size Used by ip_masq_autofw 2488 0 (unused) ip_masq_ftp 3584 0 (unused) rtl8139 11348 0 (unused) af_packet 6152 0 (unused) unix 11352 0 (autoclean) correspondingly: $ cat /etc/modules # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. unix af_packet rtl8139 ip_masq_ftp ip_masq_autofw with this configuration, I can, e.g.: $ ipchains -P input DENY without complaints. Though others have pointed out how to find documentation to compile your kernel, compiling is not necessary if you have reasonable distribution kernels installed. Which route you like better is up to you ... Good luck, mab
