IP_TABLES error help please

arachn1d · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 8:58 pm Post subject: IP_TABLES error help please

I can't get ip_tables to work with my system

keeps giving me errors
An error occured when checking your current IPtables configuration :

modprobe: Can't locate module ip_tables
iptables v1.2.9: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.

This may indicate that your kernel does not support IPtables

This error was by webmin and I recieve same errors from console.

I went through every possible kernel configuration on my system, even adding everythign as modules ( in the ip tables support area )and it still doesnt work I don't know why.

DaveArb · Guru Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 510 Location: Texas, USA

This is everything that matches IPTAB and FILT from a working firewall/router:

Pachacamac · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 9:46 pm Post subject:

Oh it is very simple you don't have iptables in your kernel.

You can find your information here
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=176792&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

arachn1d · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 9:53 pm Post subject:

it'd help if it was english

btw DaveArb I have no idea what you mean sorry im no guru.

Pachacamac · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 10:16 pm Post subject:

Ah okey, you don't speak french ?

I will do a Ctrl + C and Ctrl + v because I am a nice french boy

arachn1d · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 10:37 pm Post subject:

I have all of that.

The problem is its just that it's not working :'(

mekong · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 11:26 pm Post subject:

Just to make sure you have iptables enable on your running kernel.

zcat /proc/config.gz | grep IPTABLES

When I first installed Gentoo, I forget to mount /boot before copy the kernel and keep asking why my new compile kernel didn't work.

arachn1d · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 11:46 pm Post subject:

no such file or directory.

mekong · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 11:54 pm Post subject:

Oh, config.gz it's an option on kernel. if you don't have it. Check if you have these files:

/proc/net/ip_tables_matches
/proc/net/ip_tables_names
/proc/net/ip_tables_targets

arachn1d · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 12:06 am Post subject:

dont have those

arachn1d · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 1:29 am Post subject:

is that bad? lol :evil:

DaveArb · Guru Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 510 Location: Texas, USA

Sorry, didn't mean to be cryptic. Your answer to Pachacamac covered my earlier comment.

Perhaps emerging iptables would fix up your problems.

Dave

Pachacamac · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 2:30 pm Post subject:

Yes DaveArb I think he miss something. But what ? I don't know.

arachn1d · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 10:52 pm Post subject:

re-did it like 6 times.

splooge · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 636

Don't forget to mount /boot before installing the new kernel:

mekong · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 3:06 am Post subject:

I think your current running kernel don't have iptables enables. Those files on /proc are created by kernel with iptables enable.

arachn1d · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 6:47 am Post subject:

arachn1d · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 6:57 am Post subject:

okay nm i did that now i get this error..

arachn1d · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 6:37 pm Post subject:

bumpy

mekong · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 6:44 pm Post subject:

Hi, did you compile iptables as modules? Which option on netfilter did you select? just select them all. You use iptables for firewall right? I would compile it in the kernel instead as module. You need it loaded all the time anyway.

arachn1d · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 7:18 pm Post subject:

I loaded them as modules and I selected everything except experimentals.

Please tell me what I would have to do as if you were going to do install iptables

that is mounting whatever the entire process of installing iptables because i keep hearing did u mount boot? blah blah blah im soo confused all I did was bassicaly

cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
(do all the iptables configs)
save and exit
make dep
iptables -L
not working stupid errors....

what would i have to do to make it work? thx.

splooge · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 636

arachn1d · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 6:58 am Post subject:

okay i did that like 500 million times and it didnt work, trying to reemerge blah blah blah ... damnit

arachn1d · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 6:37 am Post subject:

bump*

gigel · Guru Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 370 Location: .se/.ro

whoa,this is weird ..
well,i must repeat what others said..
first make sure that /usr/src/linux is pointing to your kernel
compile iptables support into the kernel
after this,make sure in /usr/src/linux/.config
the lines that begin with CONFIG_IP_NF* are ending with "y" or "m" (except de " ,e.g. CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=m)

next emerge iptables
now what it the output from iptables -A INPUT -j DROP
and iptables -L
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$emerge sux