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in gentoo, a fresh install, I get this error message while trying to do anything except display the help in ipatbles:

 

modprobe: Can't locate module ip_tables

iptables v1.2.8: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?)

Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.

 

I am using the 2.4.20 kernel, and iptables worked fine with the same kernel version in redhat 9. I even emerged a new version of iptables, and the error message still comes up. what could be the problem?

did you use genkernel to compile the kernel.. or did you do it yourself?
genkernel

ok.... i made menuconfiog, added network packet filtering, then added iptables support. i then enabled everything that came up after i added iptables supporty. i then

 

make dep && make bzImage modules modules_install

 

well, that didnt work. kernel compile errors...

 

so i copied the .config to /root and then:

 

make mrproper

make clean

 

copied the .config back, then

 

make menuconfig

 

just to make sure it was right

 

then

 

make dep && make bzImage modules modules_install

 

it went off without a hitch...

 

then i mounted /boot and backed up the old bzImage and copied the new bzImage from /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot/bzImage and updated my boot loader to conform to load the new kernel.

 

i rebooted and it still gave me the same error as stated before.

 

so, I emerged iptables again. still, same error message...

 

I'm at a loss... there isnt any hosts.allow or hosts.deny in /etc so i cant even do that to try and secure this box... any suggestions?

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