[olug] Several problems I'd like advice on.RH7.2

[Don E. Kauffman]

Hello,

I recently tried to upgrade to the 2.4.9 kernel from RH. (I know it's out of 
date already!)  I'm runnng into problems wih it.

I recompiled it with my saved configuration (and the correct sound card.) 

1. the shell script i have set up for my firewall tells me that it cannot 
find the iptables module. I checked the configuration file and I have 
netfilter enabled.. Here's the text of hte related part of the configuration 
file. 
CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_IRC=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_QUEUE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_LIMIT=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MAC=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MARK=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MULTIPORT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TOS=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TCPMSS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_STATE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_UNCLEAN=y
# CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_OWNER is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MIRROR=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=y
# CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REDIRECT is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_IRC=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_FTP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TOS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MARK=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TCPMSS=y

In looking at this, I see that I have several items set up as modules but all 
the rest are compiled into the kernel. As far as I know, juidging from the 
state of modules.conf. they aren't getting loaded from there. And I know I 
haven't been loading them in with modprobe.  SO is this a problem?

When i ran the firewall script. it also said,

"/lib/modules//2.4.7//lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: 
insmod /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o failed"

I suspect this means that I'm using the wrong version of module ip_tables. 
However, when I look for a more recent version of that module in kernel 
source, it isn't there. Where might one find the correct version for 
2.4.9-34? 

Finally, in the midst oif all of this I happened to note that iptables 
sysconfiig file is missing. How does one go about creating such an animal? Is 
there a model I could use to create one of my own?

Thanks much!

Don Kauffman

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