did you enable the ipchains cmpatibility module? (i think is the last one one the netfiler menu con make menuconfig) good luck On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 17:09, Cory Visi wrote: > I am using a 2.4.20 kernel with pom-20030107 and iptables v1.2.7a. From > pom-20030107, I have installed all the pending patches and all the base > patches. In addition, I have installed the following extra patches: > > amanda-conntrack-nat.patch > eggdrop-conntrack.patch > ip_tables-proc.patch > mms-conntrack-nat.patch > pptp-conntrack-nat.patch > quake3-conntrack.patch > rsh.patch > tftp-conntrack-nat.patch > > The problem is, when I compile the kernel statically and enable all the > iptables options, I cannot do NAT. Any iptables line that specifies a > chain in the nat table causes an Invalid Argument: > > # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $EXTERNAL -s $INTERNAL_NETWORK -j SNAT --to-source $EXTERNAL_IP > Invalid argument > > Another interesting thing to point out, is that I also compiled this > kernel with modules and experienced the same problem. I was, however, able > to fix it by disabling the IPv4 netfilter option for "NAT of local > connections". For the module kernel, disabling this option fixes the > problem. For the staticly compiled kernel, disabling this option has no > effect-- the error persists. > > Anyone have any ideas? > Please CC me directly if you respond to the list, since I am not > subscribed (yet). > > Thank you, > Cory Visi > > >
