hi, andre, i finaly did it! the problem is that gentoo doensn't include the tarpit patch into the kernel sources. so i had to do it manually. thank you, anyway. cheers, angico. --- Andre Ramoni <ramoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I use gentoo too. > Seems that you use the "extensions" use flag, right ? > Seems like iptables have build the lib ok, and is loading it ok > (since it > recognizes the -j TARPIT help) > I made a test here, that was to disable the TARPIT in the kernel, and > so, I > got the same error of you. > > Your TARPIT is in your kernel as a module ? Try to modprobe it to see > if any > problem occurs. > Once I compiled the kernel with TARPIT build in again, things get > back to > normal. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com