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jrbush82
08-25-2001, 10:53 PM
I've been trying to get this working for some time now. I have gone through the documentation and haven't found anything useful to the problem I am experiencing. I'm using a version of modutils quite a bit over the minimum required, I'm using iptables version required and everything looks like its right, but of course, something isn't. On boot-up, I get this error:

iptables v1.2.2: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Table does not exist
(do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.

So, I went to the rc.firewall script that initiates on boot-up and started going through to the commands to find which was causing the problems. At the very end of the script, it sets up various different stuff to the /usr/sbin/iptables... here is what it does:

/usr/sbin/iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT

and this is what is causing the error message that I get:

iptables v1.2.2: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Table does not exist
(do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.

Anybody have any ideas?!

Thanks,
Jason