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Re: Setting up IPTables..



On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 03:45:22AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:30:01AM +0100, Martin Kacerovsky wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:27:38AM +0000, Kevin.Bewley@camr.org.uk wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 	
> > > Hi all,
> > >    Can anyone tell me where there is a HOWTO describing (or give me
> > > an outline of what I should do) setting up IPTables on my debian 
> > > 3.0r1 box. I am using a self-compiled 2.4.20 kernel and connect 
> > > using ppp/dialup so here's what I think I need to know:
> > > 
> > > * What kernel options/modules should I compile and set with modconf?
> > 
> > So you must compile Netfilter into kernel (not a module), 
> 
> Are you sure about this?  I compile all my netfilter stuff as modules,
> and even the whole 'packet networking' (or whatever it is) system is
> modularised on this very machine.

I think he means that CONFIG_NETFILTER should be "CONFIG_NETFILTER=y"; 
the only options are 'y' and 'n'; you can't choose 'm' for
CONFIG_NETFILTER.

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Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
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