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From: Eugene Rosenzweig <eugene259@××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-2.6.20 vs iptables
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:10:37
Message-Id: euafal$pr5$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] gentoo-2.6.20 vs iptables by Roy Wright
1 Roy Wright wrote:
2 > Howdy,
3 >
4 > This is just a FYI, after upgrading my kernel to 2.6.20, my firewall
5 > was broken. I was using firestarter but had the same problem
6 > trying to use guarddog. Traced it down to missing the iptables
7 > state module. There could have been other modules missing,
8 > but I just enabled building them all and that solved my problem.
9 >
10 > So when you upgrade your kernel, you may want to check:
11 >
12 > Networking
13 > Networking options
14 > Network packet filtering framwork
15 > Core Netfilter Configuration
16 >
17 > and build as modules all the Netfilter Xtable support modules
18 >
19 >
20 > HTH,
21 > Roy
22 >
23 Yeah I fell for that one too...
24
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