Thanks! Re: COL 311 firewall

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Thanks, Llama!  That did it.   I'll have to do something about that.

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On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Net Llama! wrote:

> Make sure that the ipchains module isn't already loaded.  If so, unload 
> it, and then load the ip*tables module.
> 
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > 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?
> 
>