On Wed, 17 May 2006, Yves Goergen wrote: > On 17.05.2006 13:51 (+0100), Nigel Metheringham wrote: > > As root, try > > /sbin/iptables -n -L > > Says: > > iptables v1.2.11: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? > > (do you need to insmod?) > > Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. > > Looks like disaabled.
I had this problem last week. You need to upgrade your kernel to include the necessary support. For Linux 2.6.16 there are two different things in "make menuconfig" that I had to turn on. I think the relevant .config entries are these: CONFIG_NETFILTER=y CONFIG_NETFILTER_XTABLES=m CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=m -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
