Thanks :) Rgds, Nishit Shah. -----Original Message----- From: Patrick McHardy [mailto:kaber@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 7:08 PM To: Nishit Shah Cc: netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: iptables error Nishit Shah wrote: > Hi, > I am using 2.6.16.13 kernel in smp configuration. Machine is working > as a gateway and frequent iptables commands are fired as users logged in and > logged out. > > I got following error in between > > [root@manage /root]# iptables -nvx -L INPUT > ERROR: 7 not a valid target) > Aborted (core dumped) > > So, I tried to flush INPUT and got following > > [root@manage /root]# iptables -F INPUT > iptables: Too many levels of symbolic links > > following is a message I got in /var/log/messages > > Aug 26 14:38:30 1219741710 kernel: iptables: loop hook 1 pos 0 00000022. That kernel version has an iptables locking bug that might lead to corruption. Latest 2.6.16 version has this fixed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
