COL 311 firewall

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I'm trying to configure a COL 311 Server.  I'm at the point of putting
in a firewall, and I wanted to use IPtables.  The stock tools with this
system  are for IPchains, but the SysVinit scripts seem to use
IPtables, so I thought I could just edit things manually.  I don't mind
that.

The problem is that when I try to start /etc/rc.d/init.d/firewall,
either it won't run becuase there's a lock file (for no discernable 
reason), or if I delete the lock file, I get a long error output.
This output indicates problems with the modules.

In particular it's complaining about ip_tables.o.  When I list modules,
there's one called iptables (no underscore).  The output looks like
this:

/lib/modules/2.4.13/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: init_module: 
Device or resource busy
/lib/modules/2.4.13/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod 
/lib/modules/2.4.13/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.13/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod 
ip_tables failed

and it goes on at some length after that.  These particular messages
come from the script command:
   modprobe ip_tables

And that command gives the same error output on the command line.

What's up?

++ kevin

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