> Hey, > > I had a similar problem. The cause was running the recent kernel > version and an older iptables. I upgraded iptables to the latest > version and my problem was solved. > > Wouter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kim Leandersson [mailto:kim.leandersson@chs.chalmers.se] > Sent: dinsdag 22 oktober 2002 9:59 > To: Antony Stone; netfilter@lists.netfilter.org > Subject: RE: Trouble with --dport > > I also got those errors when using v1.2.5. The iptables-save added a > "-m" in my rules-save and that caused the same error as "blah blah". I > edited the file (/var/lib/iptables/rules-save) and then restored the > rules again and it worked just fine after that. In the latest version > of iptables this is fixed. > > //kim > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Antony Stone [mailto:Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk] >> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 11:15 PM >> To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org >> Subject: Re: Trouble with --dport >> >> >> On Monday 21 October 2002 10:07 pm, blah blah wrote: >> >> > The exact error message is: >> > iptables-restore v1.2.5: Unknown arg `--dport` >> >> Okay, so this is an error from iptables-restore, not the >> straight iptables >> command (which is what I'd mistakenly thought you meant at first). >> >> What commands did you set up before using iptables-save, and >> what is your >> saved configuration ? >> >> Antony. No idea if this helps, but my firewall script/rules look like: udp="-m udp -t udp" dp="--destination-port" iptables -A FORWARD -i $inet $udp -d 0/0 $dp 2002 -j DROP (this is to stop bugtraq :-) -- -Cheers -Andrew MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding!
