apf firewall and FC2

[Andy Green]

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On Monday 28 June 2004 13:01, Simon wrote:
> 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?

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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