> i patched the kernel sources with pom and compiled and installed and > then compiled and installed iptables 1.3.7 but still i get > > nst2:~ # /usr/local/sbin/iptables -A PREROUTE -t mangle -p > udp --dport 9090 -j ROUTE > iptables v1.3.7: Couldn't load target > `ROUTE':/usr/local/lib/iptables/libipt_ROUTE.so: cannot open shared > object file: No such file or directory So, "locate libipt_ROUTE.so" doesn't return "/usr/local/lib/iptables/libipt_ROUTE.so". In that case I suppose there was an error when compiling iptables (perhaps also when compiling the kernel?) that caused libipt_ROUTE.so not to be compiled. When you ran "make", did you see any related errors? Anyway, I don't think I can help you there; I'm not a developer, maybe someone else can. Grts, Rob - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html