It's been a while since I built a kernel on a sparc, have patience with me please... While doing make vmlinux for 2.4.9 I get: make[2]: sparc64-linux-ld: Command not found Where is this? I don't see it in a quick scan of Contents-sparc.gz. Thanks, Rich PS... Why no netfilter support in the sun4u 2.4.x kernel-images? Iptables doesn't work without it. Seems silly to have a kernel that can't do simple packet filtering by default...