Hi, just curious, why would you want to make a static kernel? The last time I did that was 4 years ago, it's easy to make some initrd with modules. Cheers, Jeroen. On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:47:22 +0100 (CET) Jesus Polvareda <jpolvareda@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have a problem everytime I intend to use iptables. I'm using a redhat 7.2 platform with a 2.4.25 kernel compiled without modules and including iptables components in static kernel. > > I have eliminated the initial iptables 1.2.3a because it gave me the following problem: > iptables v1.2.3 : can't initialize iptables table `filter' ... > > After installing the iptables v1.2.9 ( a tar.gz and then compilated), the problem was still present. I have even tried a static compilation but same results... > > After looking in this lists, I haven't found any mail related to this problem in case of a static kernel... > > Problem seems that static 2.4.25 kernel (in fact above 2.4.18 I think) doesn't create the pseudo file /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe which is looked by the iptables usermode program even when it is compiled with NO_SHARED_LIBS=1... > > Is there any patch to iptables which can correct this problem? Had anyone had the same problem? > > > Thanks in advance, > > Jesus Polvareda > jpolvareda@xxxxxxxx > > > > > > > --------------------------------- >
