----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Schmidt" <absolut_bryan@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 2:31 AM Subject: (no subject) > I am getting the following message when trying to use iptable (iptable -L) > "iptables v1.2.6a: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? > (do yo > u need to insmod?) > Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded." > > It seems that I can't access any of the tables (filter,nat, or mangle). > Does the kernel need to be modified? How do I go about this? I am running > Debain 3.0r1 on an UtraII. > > Thanks, > > Bryan Schmidt, MCSE, MCP + Internet > Area101, Inc. > MIS Director > Often this is that ipchains is loaded in memory. Remove ipchains from memory with 'rmmod' command. Load the ip_tables module with 'insmod' or modprobe. In Red Hat it would be... # chkconfig ipchains off # chkconfig iptables on # rmmod ipchains # insmod ip_tables /Klitnan
