i have done all the procedure from scratch, patched all with patch-o-matic and now it woks fine! thanks for your attention! ivan On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 07:01:09PM +0000, 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? >