iptables!!!! grrrrahhhhhhhh

[Leodak]

ok i've been trying to setup iptables, i did everything like i was supposed to but it still don't work.. when i try anything ...e.g. iptables -L  i get this error
iptables v1.2.5: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)

any help pleaseeeeee

[voidmain]

Well, I can think of better places to ask this question but maybe you could provide a little more information.  Like what distribution you are running, your kernel version, was "iptables" included in your distro or did you download/compile and try to install?  The first thing I would check is the suggestion that is in the error message, that is, are the kernel modules loaded?

You should be able to do a /sbin/lsmod and it should list two iptables modules (among others, at least it does on my system):

iptable_filter
ip_tables

If they aren't loaded have you tried to load them?:

/sbin/modprobe iptable_filter

And first but not last, RTFM: www.iptables.org

[ January 29, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[Leodak]

i did read the manual and it didn't help all that much (just confused me some more) but i fixed it my self