On Saturday 24 April 2004 5:52 pm, Steve Arentz wrote: > I upgraded my Redhat based linux firewall (netfilter) system from > iptables v1.2.8, kernel v2.4.23 to iptables v1.2.9, kernel v2.4.25. > (Trustix v2.0 to Trustix v2.1 just in case its important.) > > Using the same rule set, all my icmp rules now get the following error - > iptables v1.2.9: Unknown arg ?--icmp-type? > > A simple command line rule entry like the following gets the same error - > iptables -A INPUT -p ICMP -s 0/0 --icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT What do you get in response to "iptables -p icmp -h"? Does it tell you what type names are supported? Do you get the same error if you specify the ICMP type by name instead of number (ie: 'echo-request' instead of '8')? Regards, Antony. -- "640 kilobytes (of RAM) should be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.