On Thursday 18 January 2007 17:58, FabrÃcio L. Ribeiro wrote: > How can I install and run iptables (with conntrack and all other > modules) in a Gentoo 2006.1 box with kernel generated by genkernel? > > I tried "emerge iptables", but when I type "iptables -F" I get > something like this: > > FATAL: Module ip_tables not found. > iptables v1.3.5: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables > who? (do you need to insmod?) > Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
genkernel uses a standard .config the first time you use it on a kernel version. In the kernel sources, all the netfilter options are disabled by default, and you MUST enable them via menuconfig. Did you perhaps omit this step? alan -- [email protected] mailing list
