Can't modeprobe ip_tables
Hello Folks:
First I'd like to show a limitation in my case. The server is at a
datacenter, so booting a new kernel is highly improbable, only in a
emergency case.
Now the problem.
I can't use neither iptables nor brctl. The problem is that the
module doesn't exist.
Some data:
# uname -a
Linux loghost1 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
I've downloaded kernel-source 2.4.27, and copied
/boot/config-2.4.27-2.386 into /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.27/.config
First I tried 'make dep', but an error occured. Then I ran 'make
menuconfig', made no modifications, and then ran 'make dep, with no
errors at all.
After this I compiled the modules and installed them (make modules;
make modules_install). No erros again.
The new modules were saved into /lib/modules/2.4.27, not into
/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386, so the modules couldn't be found.
Then I removed /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386 and renamed
/lib/modules/2.4.27 to /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386
This is what happened then:
# modprobe ip_tables
/lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o:
/lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved
symbol proc_net_R2b2fe002
/lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o:
/lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved
symbol nf_register_sockopt_Rede1b024
/lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o:
/lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved
symbol remove_proc_entry_R31ed257b
/lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o:
/lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved
symbol nf_unregister_sockopt_Rd3e682dd
/lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o:
/lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved
symbol irq_stat_R57e2f77e
/lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o:
/lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved
symbol create_proc_entry_R648035a2
/lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod
ip_tables failed
In other words, it didn't work.
Can somebody, please, help me. I couldn't go any further then this.
Fabio.
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