On Wed, 21 Sep 2016, Sudheendra Murthy wrote: > I'm trying to install iptables and ipset on an older kernel version > 2.6.35-22-server. I was able to build iptables from source and iptables > v1.6.0 is working fine. > > For ipset, I patched the kernel sources based on netlink.patch and ipset > compiled correctly. However, when I try to execute any ipset command, it > gives the following error. > > # ipset -L > ipset v6.29: Kernel error received: Invalid argument > > # dmesg > [69432.285219] ip_set: cannot register with nfnetlink. > > From the code, it looks like it is failing when executing > nfnetlink_subsys_register(...) > (http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c#L2069). As it is written in the README file of the ipset package, for kernel versions < 2.6.39 you have to apply the netlink.patch from the package and recompile the kernel itself. Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlecsik.jozsef@xxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary -- 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
