>> I also find it strange that you do have a .so, but not a .ko file. > > The .so is iptables(8)'s library (SO="shared object). The .ko > is a kernel 2.6.x kernel module. Never having compiled Yes I knew that (although I didn't mention this). I just think it's strange that compiling iptables would produce a .so file when compiling the kernel does not produce an accompanying .ko file (except maybe when ipt_connlimit is not compiled as module, but that is something we don't know ;-)) Gr, Rob