Re: iptables & 2.5 problem

Harald Welte (laforge@netfilter.org)
Wed, 4 Jun 2003 20:07:26 +0200


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On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:26:38PM -0500, Shawn wrote:
> I really don't know how to track this problem to its source, so I was
> hoping someone could enlighten me.

Since this seems to be an iptables usage problem, please direct further
questions to netfilter@lists.netfilter.org (see=20
http://www.netfilter.org/contact.html for more info)

> The problem illustrated here:
> # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
> iptables: Invalid argument
>=20
> This box is a gentoo running iptables-1.2.8-r1 and linux-2.5.70-mm3.
> Config attached.

This sounds like your iptables userspace command was compiled for a
kernel with different headers. Please rebuild iptables and make sure it
actually uses the headers of your 2.5.70-mm3 kernel.

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"Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early
architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going
on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie

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