Most of the net/ipv4/netfilter modules not available in 2.6.16.16...

Fawad Nazir fawad.nazir at gmail.com
Mon May 22 01:22:16 UTC 2006


Hi All,

I am trying to setup Masquerade on my Linux 2.6.16.16 kernel. I am
following the How-To from here:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/

The problem is that i dont have the required kernel modules in 2.6.16.16 kernel.

In original kernel 2.6.12-9-386 which came with Ubuntu 5.10 had these
required modules:

fawad at Ubuntu-01:/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter$ ls
arptable_filter.ko          ip_nat_irc.ko         ipt_CLASSIFY.ko
ipt_hashlimit.ko   ipt_NETMAP.ko    ipt_state.ko
arp_tables.ko               ip_nat_snmp_basic.ko  ipt_CLUSTERIP.ko
ipt_helper.ko      ipt_NOTRACK.ko   ipt_tcpmss.ko
arpt_mangle.ko              ip_nat_tftp.ko        ipt_comment.ko
ipt_iprange.ko     ipt_owner.ko     ipt_TCPMSS.ko
ip_conntrack_amanda.ko      ip_queue.ko           ipt_connmark.ko
ipt_length.ko      ipt_physdev.ko   ipt_tos.ko
ip_conntrack_ftp.ko         iptable_filter.ko     ipt_CONNMARK.ko
ipt_limit.ko       ipt_pkttype.ko   ipt_TOS.ko
ip_conntrack_irc.ko         iptable_mangle.ko     ipt_conntrack.ko
ipt_LOG.ko         ipt_realm.ko     ipt_ttl.ko
ip_conntrack.ko             iptable_nat.ko        ipt_dscp.ko
ipt_mac.ko         ipt_recent.ko    ipt_ULOG.ko
ip_conntrack_proto_sctp.ko  iptable_raw.ko        ipt_DSCP.ko
ipt_mark.ko        ipt_REDIRECT.ko
ip_conntrack_tftp.ko        ip_tables.ko          ipt_ecn.ko
ipt_MARK.ko        ipt_REJECT.ko
ip_nat_amanda.ko            ipt_addrtype.ko       ipt_ECN.ko
ipt_MASQUERADE.ko  ipt_SAME.ko
ip_nat_ftp.ko               ipt_ah.ko             ipt_esp.ko
ipt_multiport.ko   ipt_sctp.ko


but in 2.6.16.16 we only have the following modules:

fawad at nicta123:~$ ls
/lib/modules/2.6.16.16-fawad-killer-kernel/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/
ip_conntrack_amanda.ko  ip_conntrack_irc.ko
ip_conntrack_proto_sctp.ko  ip_queue.ko
ip_conntrack_ftp.ko     ip_conntrack.ko      ip_conntrack_tftp.ko

Is this a bug or i am doing something wrong or we have some different
way to configure Masquerade in Linux 2.6.16.16.

I will be thankful for help.
-- 
Fawad Nazir




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