[Firehol-support] Re: configuration file problem?

Daniel Pittman daniel at rimspace.net
Fri Jan 7 09:06:52 GMT 2005


On 7 Jan 2005, Camilo Rostoker wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply, much appreciated.  I am fairly certain I do
>> have iptables built into my kernel.  The reason I believe I have
>> iptables installed is because I was playing around, adding/removing
>> simple rules (i.e. ping) from an online tutorial and that seemed to
>> work ok ...I have rebuilt the kernel myself several times to include
>> more and more modules that kept appearing to be missing.  I am using
>> kernel version 2.4.26 on a Debian Woody dist.  Not sure what to do
>> now...sorry I don't know any more.
>
> Hi, sorry to bother everyone... I checked into the kernel situation and
> enabled everything in the netfilter category and now it seems to work 
> fine.  I didn't realize that it needed all those extra modules.

Ah, good.  I am glad that my original assessment was correct, and that
you have things working now. 

Regards,
        Daniel
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