On Monday 29 March 2004 8:01 pm, ihernandez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello. i have used patch-o-matic to add the pptp-nat helper module > kernel works fine, but userspace iptables tool fails with: > "iptables: Invalid argument" > > i have seen a lot of posts and the solution is to compile the > iptables-1.2.9 tools > i downloaded a fresh copy from www.netfilter.org and run make > KERNEL_DIR=mykerneldir > it says: > Extensions found: IPv4:recent IPv6:ah IPv6:esp IPv6:frag IPv6:ipv6header > IPv6:hbh IPv6:dst IPv6:rt > > then i install. > fine, but it continues with it's problems!!!! > what can i do to compile the tools th right way? Are you sure the command you've run afterwards is the newly-compiled version, and not just the old one sitting somewhere in your path? What does "ls -al `find / -name iptables`" show ? (Those are single backticks around the find command). Regards, Antony. -- Anyone that's normal doesn't really achieve much. - Mark Blair, Australian rocket engineer Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.