Cable question

Sascha Reissner sascha.reissner@toxicnet.de
Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:09:06 +0100


From: "Darrell Dieringer" <netfilter@darrelldieringer.com>

>
> Hosts in my masqueraded private lan can ftp fine, though I too have
> noticed the same thing.
>
> ip_nat_ftp              3216   0  (unused)
> ip_conntrack_ftp        3536   0  [ip_nat_ftp]
>
> I also noticed that...
>
> iptable_filter          1680   0  (unused)
>
> .. which I know isn't the case.  I have a bunch of rules in the filter
> table.  (Don't we all.  *grin*)

maybe you have all the netfilter stuff compiled _into_ the kernel but still
insmod the modules.. that would solve why they are there but unused and
still your packetfiltering works.

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