[mdlug] Problems with new kernel and iptables

[Mike]

Mike wrote:
> Guys, I'm wondering if someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong
> here.  A couple of months ago, I accidentally blasted away the
> config that I used for kernels, and so I had to build myself another
> kernel by hand, but I keep running into problems with iptables.  I'm
> not sure what is going on.
> 
> When I try and load my firewall, I get the error message:
> 
> FATAL: Module ip_tables not found.
> 
> Repeated several times.  When I try to input lines like:
> 
> iptables -A INPUT  -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp  -m multiport  --dports
> 80,443  -m state --state NEW  -j ACCEPT
> 
> is when I the error message.  I think it might be a problem using
> the -m multiport flag?
> 
> Attached is a copy of my kernel's .config, and also, after I build
> the kernel, I have tried doing a fresh install of iptables 1.3.7,
> using the new kernel's includes.
> 
> Anyone see anything obviously wrong in my kernel config?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mike
> 

[snip kernel config]

One more thing I'm about to try, is to just build all the netfilter
and xtable stuff as modules, I'll let you know if that works.

Thanks

Mike