Linux Debian support - Re: networking problems (fixed!) -- Security Tips, anyone?

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Re: networking problems (fixed!) -- Security Tips, anyone?

Camilo Rostoker

2004-11-01, 5:45 pm

Hi,

I installed firestarter and when I tried to run it I got a bunch of
errors complaining the ip_tables was not found. So I installed iptables
using "apt-get install iptables" and now I get:

iptables v1.2.6a can't initialize iptables table "filter": iptable who?
(do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I haven't used iptables at all before
in linux so this is kind of new to me, as you can tell :-)

Cheers,
Camilo

Jim Bowering wrote:
> There are HowTos at http://www.tldp.org for security, but I'd recommend
> doing apt-get install firestarter. Run firestarter as root and go through
> the wizard. I find it the simplest and quickest way to put up a firewall.
>