testing installation of conntrack command line tool

[Alan Ezust]

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 12:48, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Alan Ezust wrote:
> > Hi - i'm trying out the "conntrack" program for my first time.
> > It compiles and runs, but when I try to do
> >
> > conntrack -L conntrack
> >
> > it shows me nothing.
> >
> > If I cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack I can see lots of log lines there. Should
> > the conntrack -L conntrack show me pretty much the same thing?
> >
> > What's the best way to test that conntrack is working properly?
>
> Please check that ip_conntrack_netlink is loaded, old kernel do not load
> it on demand.
I'm using kernel 2.6.16.29.

These kernel options are set:

CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK_QUEUE=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK_LOG=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK_NETLINK=y

Are you saying I should also add a 
CONFIG_IP_CONNTRACK_NETLINK flag in the .config  or something else?