problem on iptables

[Peng Yang]

Hi Jorge,

How to turn on this configuration?
I am using kernel 2.6.20.11.
Do I need to recompile the kernel after turning on the configuration?

thanks,
Peng

On 9/4/07, Jorge Davila <davila at nicaraguaopensource.com> wrote:
> You don't need any patch to put to work netfilter/iptables.
>
> I'm pretty sure that is disabled in the kernel configuration.
>
> Jorge.
>
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 14:48:30 -0400
>   "Peng Yang" <pey204 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > In our current kernel, iptables doesn't work due to the error "can't
> > initialize iptables table `filter'".
> > I suspect that the netfilter is not turned on in the kernel.
> > We download the v2.6.20.11 sourcecode and try to do a menuconfig but
> > the networking packet filtering framework does not provide any option
> > for us to select to turn on netfilter. Can anyone let me know what patch
> >files
> > I need to add to allow me to choose this netfilter feature?
> >
> > thanks
> > peng
> >
> >
>
> Jorge Isaac Davila Lopez
> Nicaragua Open Source
> +505 430 5462
> davila at nicaraguaopensource.com
>