On Thursday 2010-04-01 13:46, Mark Ryden wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I wrote a simple, short (35 lines) netfilter module (XTable target)
>The code is below.
>I build it and insmoded it.
>When I try to add this iptables rule:
>
>iptables -A OUTPUT -p UDP --dport 9998 -j ECHO
(Note that there is already an "ECHO" target in Xtables-addons ;-))
>I get this error:
>
>iptables v1.4.5: Couldn't load target `ECHO':/lib64/xtables/libipt_ECHO.so:
>cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
>
>My question is: for a simple netfilter module like this ("ECHO"), must
>I create a
>corresponding shared library (libipt_ECHO.so)?
Yes.
>Is there a way to avoid this when adding such a rule,
>using some default mechansim ?
Let's ask Patrick:
What do you think of enabling iptables to assume targets with .size=0
(which don't have options by design) if there was no libxt_XYZ.so found?
That would make things like libxt_NOTRACK.c obsolete, too.
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