On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 10:05:07AM +1100, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
> However, it would appear that iptables support isn't included in the kernel
> that was installed by RH 7.2 (2.4.7). That may simply be because I asked for
> no firewall, but I don't know. If that's the case, I think it's kind of poor
> that they would leave out such support, given that one might easily decide to
> add firewalling later, but I guess that's a design decision on their part.
Redhat 7.2 *does* include iptables in the default kernel. However,
their /etc/init.d/iptables script first checks to see if ipchains is
running by looking for the ipchains module in lsmod. Redhat is probably
using ipchains, even though you selected no firewall. Try "rpm -e
ipchains" or otherwise stop /etc/init.d/ipchains from running at bootup.
To test this theory without modifying your system, try
service stop ipchains
rmmod ipchains # There *might* be other modules using
# this, if so remove those too.
service start iptables
I *think* that should be sufficient. If it works, the "service start
iptables" will show an "[ OK ]" line, otherwise it'll do nothing and
give no output.
-Andrew.
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