hello everybody, I have been lurking on this & the laptop lists awhile in preparation of installing debian over my red hat partition, which I did last weekend.
It's debian 'unstable' and kernel 2.4.18 custom-compiled with help at an installfest to get X running on my Sony PKG-FX370K laptop. What I am trying to do is set up a very simple firewall using iptables. Eventually I will need a script that will drop all requests, on all protocols, unless it is in response to a request by me. I'm having a more fundamental problem than that, though, and I'm not really sure how to describe it. I think this is significant: # iptables --list modprobe: can't locate module ip_tables iptables v1.2.6a: can't initialize iptables table 'filter': iptables who? (do you need insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. Then there's: # insmod iptables insmod: iptables: no module by that name found using the ncurses # make menuconfig from the kernel source directory, Networking Options -> [*] Network packet filtering (replaces ipchains) is checked. That's the one that looks like the one I want. and it doesn't allow module installation, as far as I can tell, making the above error messages incomprehensible to me. I may very well be missing something standard; it was a very minimal http install after booting from 2.2r6 i386 binary-1 CD A shove in the right direction would be much appreciated. Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
