On August 27, 2004 04:50 am, Bassam A. Al-Khaffaf wrote: > Thanks for the great information, > I have successfully upgraded and recompiled the kernel according to > the URL you gave to me. > > You have mentioned to compile the user space, so what do u mean by user > space and how to compile it, do you mean I have to go inside the > /usr/src/iptables-1.2.11 and write the following instructions again: > > make KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux-2.4.27 > make install KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux-2.4.27 > > Do I need to compile this user space before I start the actual > configuration and compilation for the kernel as described in the URL > http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html? > > Regards > Bassam > Short answer is yes. iptables userspace refers to the iptables code itself that is NOT part of the kernel (kernelspace) Thus the iptables package itself. Alistair
