Tony Heal wrote: > From the man page > Protocol all will match with all protocols and is taken as default > when this option is omitted. > > So try removing the -p tcp and see if that fixes it. Same problem: [root@naga init.d]# iptables -A INPUT --source *.*.*.* -j DROP iptables v1.2.11: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Module is wrong version Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.