On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 04:26:50PM -0700, vineet bhargava wrote: > Hi all, > > I am having trouble setting up internet conenction sharing > on an embedded device. I am running linux kernel v2.4.18 > with iptables and netfilter support. > > When I try to run this command - > iptables --table nat --append POSTROUTING --out-interface > wlan0 -j MASQUERADE > > I am getting the following error - > iptables v1.2.2: Couldn't load target `MASQUERADE':File not > found first off--that is an *_ANCIENT_* version of iptables...1.2.8/1.2.9 is the oldest version i still see in use regularly, as SuSE and RH are keeping them around...however--the current version is 1.2.11... anyways--it sounds like you compiled a custom kernel w/o MASQUERADE support. does your kernel config have the following set: CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=m the 'm' would be for a modular kernel, a non-modular kernel would have it set to 'y' if you do have that set in your kernel, and your kernel is modular, check the output of: lsmod | grep ipt_MASQUERADE and if you don't see any output, try loading it with: modprobe ipt_MASQUERADE the module in question should be located at: /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_MASQUERADE.o HTH... -j -- Jason Opperisano <opie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
