Hi Bart, On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:34:07 +0200 Bart Dieterman <bartdieter...@gmail.com> wrote: > sudo ip6tables-restore < /etc/ip6tables.firewall.rules > And I get: > ip6tables-restore: line 18 failed > [...] > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-042stab057.1 (SMP w/1 CPU core) This kernel version does not exist in Debian. However, there is an OpenVZ kernel for RHEL with that version number. Therefore, I assume you are running Debian in an OpenVZ VM and didn’t tell us (please tell us in the future).
As noted in [1], ip6tables-restore always returns an error in the COMMIT line. Therefore, it’d be useful to test the basic functionality of ip6tables-restore first and — in case that even works — narrow down the problem by inserting many COMMIT statements. Can you please try the following? cat <<EOF | sudo ip6tables-restore *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] COMMIT EOF Does that work on your machine? I also setup a VM with kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64 and iptables 1.4.8-3 (same major versions that you are using). As expected, running ip6tables-restore with your rules file works just fine. I’m therefore tagging this bug unreproducible and moreinfo, meaning it will be closed in a reasonable timeframe in case you don’t reply anymore :). In [1], womble notes that your OpenVZ provider might have disabled iptables. I think that’s very likely the cause for your problem. Best regards, Michael [1] http://serverfault.com/questions/101022 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
