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From: Bryan Whitehead <driver@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:03:14
Message-Id: 5cd1cd690711122255l2efb6726o620d9b90e461c4e3@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel by Walter Dnes
1 I don't see what the big deal is - you are choosing to do everything
2 manually by running gentoo and compiling your own kernel. If you don't
3 like having to learn things like this why not use Ubuntu or Fedora?
4
5 On Nov 12, 2007 8:35 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
6 > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 10:53:52AM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote
7 > > On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 15:40 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote:
8 > > >
9 > > > I believe your problem comes from:
10 > > >
11 > > > # CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK_SUPPORT is not set
12 > > >
13 > > > Build this module and try again.
14 > > >
15 > > This option isn't even available in my config. Should I add it? Will
16 > > it work with the kernel I'm running (2.6.22-hardened-r8)
17 >
18 > I'm beginning to long for the good ole days of ipchains. Is it still
19 > maintained? iptables has been scattered all over hell's-half-acre, and
20 > you need to run around enabling things all over the place to make it
21 > work. Here are some things enabled in my setup via "make menuconfig".
22 > Note that this is just for filtering out the bad guys. I do not do any
23 > masq/nat/mangling/etc with iptables. *IMPORTANT NOTE* you *MUST* enable
24 > the item... "IPv4 connection tracking support (required for NAT)" in
25 > order for state matching to work. I found this out "the hard way".
26 >
27 > Networking --->
28 > [*] Networking support
29 > Networking options --->
30 > [*] Network packet filtering framework (Netfilter) --->
31 > Core Netfilter Configuration --->
32 > <*> Netfilter connection tracking support
33 > --- Netfilter Xtables support (required for ip_tables)
34 > <*> "CLASSIFY" target support
35 > <*> "MARK" target support
36 > <*> "NFQUEUE" target Support
37 > < > "NFLOG" target support
38 > < > "TCPMSS" target support
39 > <*> "comment" match support
40 > < > "connbytes" per-connection counter match support
41 > < > "connmark" connection mark match support
42 > < > "conntrack" connection tracking match support
43 > <*> "DCCP" protocol match support
44 > < > "DSCP" match support
45 > < > "ESP" match support
46 > < > "helper" match support
47 > <*> "length" match support
48 > <*> "limit" match support
49 > <*> "mac" address match support
50 > <*> "mark" match support
51 > <*> Multiple port match support
52 > <*> "pkttype" packet type match support
53 > < > "quota" match support
54 > <*> "realm" match support
55 > <*> "sctp" protocol match support (EXPERIMENTAL)
56 > <*> "state" match support
57 > < > "statistic" match support
58 > <*> "string" match support
59 >
60 > IP: Netfilter Configuration --->
61 > <*> IPv4 connection tracking support (required for NAT)
62 > [*] proc/sysctl compatibility with old connection tracking
63 > < > IP Userspace queueing via NETLINK (OBSOLETE)
64 > <*> IP tables support (required for filtering/masq/NAT)
65 > <*> IP range match support
66 > <*> TOS match support
67 > <*> recent match support
68 > < > ECN match support
69 > < > AH match support
70 > <*> TTL match support
71 > <*> Owner match support
72 > <*> address type match support
73 > <*> Packet filtering
74 > <*> REJECT target support
75 > <*> LOG target support
76 > < > ULOG target support
77 > < > Full NAT
78 > < > Packet mangling
79 > < > raw table support (required for NOTRACK/TRACE)
80 > < > ARP tables support
81 >
82 >
83 >
84 > --
85 > Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1
86 > Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security?
87 > A. I think it would be a good idea.
88 >
89 > --
90 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
91 >
92 >
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>