Re: [tlug] Is having no "iptables" bad?

[Godwin Stewart <godwin.stewart@example.com>]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 19:38:29 +0200, Botond Botyanszki
<tlug@example.com> wrote:

> So by default, you should have netfilter/iptables support enabled
> in that config, no need to bother with tweaking the config much.

He won't.

As already mentioned, there were significant changes in how netfilter
is managed at the kernel config layer between 2.6.15 and 2.6.16 (I
originally thought it was 2.6.16 and 2.6.17 but was wrong).

If you cp /boot/config-2.6.15 /usr/src/linux-2.6.17/.config and then
from within the 2.6.17 tree run make menuconfig, you get a metric
buttload of error messages about undefined constants, all of them
relating to the netfilter subsection, and the relevant modules are
*not* built.

-- 
G. Stewart - godwin.stewart@example.com

Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?  Who knows?  Who cares?

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