The modprobe did the trick - firewall (with a couple minor messages) and masquerading came right up. Then it took over an hour playing with the firewall which no longer allowed DHCP handshaking to occur (probably behaving right now, was acting wrong under RH7.0) so that I could access mail on this laptop (all the desktops have static IPs) I do plan to switch to IPtables, but I wanted the luxury of learning it first. Thanks to all, especially Charles-- I'm 99% up and definitely functioning again. Dick At 10:43 AM 9/3/2002 -0400, you wrote:
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 10:32:08AM -0400, Richard Goodman wrote: dick> One unresolved issue - when I issue an IPChains command, the first time I dick> get "IPchains incompatible with this kernel" and thereafter "IPChains dick> protocol not available". The IPChains command is there, as for example dick> "ipchains -h" works. But I haven't got masquerading or firewalling yet dick> because of this.
I've seen this before. The /etc/rc.d/init.d/ipchains script manually modprobe's the ipchains module. If you aren't using that script, then you need to do it yourself:
/sbin/modprobe ipchains
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