Help!! iptables.o KLM not being created, so can't run iptabl

keratos68

Like, erm new to networking under Gentoo, have this problem where the iptables.o LKM module doesn't appear to be created after a kernel compile, and when I run iptables, it complains about modprobe not being able to find the module, 'cos it aint there - I checked.

I'm using gentoo-sources kernel 2.4.19-r10. Enabled Network Filtering (which can only be selected as 'inbuilt' or 'no' !) in my .config under /usr/src/linux and did the usual make dep && make clean && make bzImage && make modules & make modules_install - no errors - Good,or so I thought... :wink:

Copied the new kernel to /boot along with the map, lilo'd it and rebooted. Boot was good, logged in and ran iptables - got the error and after digging, noticed that my iptables.o module wasn't anywhere on my disk.

I tried again, same result. The Configure.help in kernel points me to the Documentation/Changes file which states that the 'packages' are FTPable,
erm - whats going on and what do I need to do - any ideas folks?

TIA
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li1_getoo · l33t Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Posts: 661 Location: Queens , NY

please put a follow up on this

tryn

keratos68 · Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 6:09 am Post subject:

Upgraded to vanilla 2.5.53 kernel (for now) - seems to be okay. No point logging with buzilla then as they are on .57 I think now?!

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keratos68 · Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 6:14 am Post subject:

TuT - TuT , my manners !!!

Thanks 4 the posts guys and the redirects, I searched all forums with keywords like "kernel module iptables" but didnt find the links that [colour=green]tryn[/colour]kindly offered.

TTFN
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Decibels · Veteran Joined: 16 Aug 2002 Posts: 1623 Location: U.S.A.

I am curious if you also emerged the iptables usermode. Besides compiling the iptables (NETFILTER) components in the the kernel or as modules, you also need to emerge iptables.

keratos68 · Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 12:01 pm Post subject:

Mmmm, I understand that IPTABLES (and other support for IP stuff) has been merged into the NETFILTER concept. I had already compiled the neccessary kernel parts ('top-end' or something I think) and "emerged iptables" afterwoods.

The problem seems to be that the iptables.o LKM isn't being created by any of these build processes. It must be somewhere else.

As I mentioned earlier, the kernel Documentation/Changes file points me to some bz2 files for NetFilter components ... but I can't acess the site to see what they are http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/iptables-1.2.tar.bz2
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keratos68 · Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 12:19 pm Post subject:

...Looks like that URL is wrong because I went to their web site homepage and navigated around a bit to find this bz2 file - its just the userspace files, which I already 'emerged'.

So I've no idea why the gentoo-sources kernel (2.4.19-r10) doesnt support the iptables.o LKM.
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jukka · Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 12:58 pm Post subject:

keratos68 · Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 4:34 pm Post subject:

Yep jukka - I had a problem in my original kernel source tree, you recall I'm using a 2.5 kernel now without the problem, but as its an 'odd' minor release number, its not "stable"!

So, what happened was that I used "make menuconfig" to select the options I need in NF and IP stuff. Rebuilt and rebooted. Could never get ip_tables to load - it wasn't being created. Reason why - well the ".config" file did not reflect the selections I had made. When I selected "<M>" in the make process, they always translated to "<*>" in the ".config" - but only for the NF stuff. Weird!!!!

Anyway, I've ''moved up'' to a new kernel now, so shall wait with anticipation as to my next justification for a kernel build - again :wink:

Phew ... so jukka was spot on folks , in case anyone else has the prob!!
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