netfilter problem

Yasuyuki KOZAKAI yasuyuki.kozakai at toshiba.co.jp
Tue Sep 19 06:47:33 CEST 2006


Hi,

From: "saravanan chanemouganandam" <saravanan_sprt at hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:46:59 +0530

> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem in compiling "netfilter" for Iptables support into the 
> linux 2.6.12 kernel version. I have manually enabled the config option 
> "CONFIG_NETFILTER=y" and all netfilter configuration CONFIG_IP_NF_* manually 
> in to the "mainstone_defconfig" file for my target arm board.
> 
> Now, the problem is that, on "make vmlinux", the files under the 
> "linux/2.6.12/net/ipv4/netfilter" directory doesn't gets compiled leaving 
> built-in.o and this annoys me a lot.
> 
> Could any one please precise me, what are the options I need to check or 
> enable in the config, Kconfig or in Makefile to get the "netfilter" compiled 
> into my kernel?

If you run 'make menuconfig' on the other machine, you will see that some
CONFIG_IP_NF_* are moved to CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_* and NETFILTER_XTABLES is
added.

-- Yasuyuki Kozakai



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