On Thursday 21 August 2003 21:24, Gideon N. Guillen wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 11:27, Adrian C. Dimaunahan wrote: > > have you tried upgrading your iptables package to 1.2.7 or 1.2.8 before > > issuing your iptables rule?
mandrake 9.1 comes with iptables 1.2.7a. > Yeah I agree with this. Iptables is very dependent on the kernel that > you're using. It's possible that Mandrake has some modifications to the > kernel that might not be present in the plain, vanilla Linux kernel. that's what i'm scared of. that's why i'm asking on the list if anyone has got a vanilla, or heavily patched, but not the same patches as mandrake's, kernel working. as far as i can tell, actually, iptables is the only problem i've got everything else works when i'm using a vanilla kernel. i just can't be a NAT router or do transparent squid :). and like it or not, most of my linux boxes are going to be doing one or both of those tasks :). uhh, ian.s, have you built a non-mandrake kernel from source and had it work with iptables? how do i get more debugging information out of iptables? iptables -vv doesn't give me much that i understand. maybe CONFIG_NETFILTER_DEBUG? if yes, where does the debug information go? :). by the way, i got sick of waiting more than 1.5 hours for a kernel to build (it's a puny 500Mhz laptop) so i went and installed distcc (distcc.samba.org, distributed cc compile) and ccache (ccache.samba.org, c/c++ compile cache). very nice. now i need to recruit more volunteer distcc computers into my compile farm :). thanks all for your assistance. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph http://bopolissimus.sni.ph Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. La Rochefoucauld -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
