Hi, To save yourself a bit of trouble, you may download the Red Hat rpm for iptables-1.2.8-8.80.2.i386.rpm either using up2date, or checking their ftp site. ciao charles On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 13:17, ads nat wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to install iptables-1.2.8.tar.bz2 on Linux 8.0 server. > I have downloaded iptables-1.2.8.tar.bz2 file from netfilter downloads to /root/iptables-1.2.8 directory. > by using command > "tar -xf iptables-1.2.8.tar" > It has created iptables-1.2.8 directory in which all files are extracted. > > I don't know how to go further. > I tried make and make install. > > Then when i gave command "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" > it gives following error. > "[root@xyz iptables-1.2.8]# /etc/rc.d/rc.local > SIOCDELRT: No such process > RTNETLINK answers: File exists > SIOCADDRT: File exists > SIOCADDRT: File exists > iptables v1.2.6a: can't initialize iptables table `-nat': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?) > Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. > > How to go ahead now? > > Thanks > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software