apf firewall and FC2

[Simon]

Andy Green wrote:
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>>I have been running the apf firewall program since redhat 9, and
>>successfully on FC1. Im trying to install it onto my new install of FC2
>>but seem to be hitting a problem. When i try to start the firewall, i
>>get the error message:
>>
>>[root at lightning root]# /etc/init.d/apf start
>>Starting APF:Unable to load iptables module (ip_tables), aborting.
>>                                                            [  OK  ]
>>[root at lightning root]#
>>
>>Any idea why it would be doing this?
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> 
> IIRC there was an FC2 bug where you get the FC2 firewall installed even if you 
> say you didn't want it at install time.  So the problem loading the iptables 
> kernel module may merely be that it is already in there.  Have a look with 
> lsmod for ip_tables.
> 
> _Andy
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You were right, ip_tables was already loaded. I used modprobe -r to 
remove it, then tried to run apf firewall but i still get a:

Starting APF:Unable to load iptables module (ip_tables), aborting.

error message.