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

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

Neil Woods

2004-11-09, 5:45 pm

On Mon, Nov 01 2004, Camilo Rostoker wrote:
> 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 :-)

ip_tables is a kernel module. To load it, type "modprobe ip_tables" as
root. To have it loaded when the system starts, edit the file
/etc/modules and add "ip_tables" on a line by itself.
--
Neil