Re: Local network detection problem


Subject: Re: Local network detection problem
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@iainstevenson.com)
Date: Fri Dec 21 2001 - 16:32:25 MST


--On Friday, December 21, 2001 9:51 PM +0100 Geert Janssens
<geert.janssens3@pandora.be> wrote:

>
> Where can I find information fot the Assante driver ? I checked the
> modules, but there is no assante driver there. So either it is compiled
> in the kernel, or the kernel uses another driver (also built-in, because
> /etc/conf.modules doesn't show any network driver).
>

If it's a LocalTalk to ethernet bridge there is no driver AFAIK. I have an
old bridge device and it just works.

>
> I have downloaded a firewall script that configures iptables (gshield).
> It seems to work quite well, except for this one thing: When the script
> runs (to configure iptables), I get the following error messages:
> iptables v1.2.2: can't initialize iptables table `mangle': Table does not
> exist (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to
> be upgraded.

Packet mangling is an IP tables option that you need to set in the kernel -
a rebuild will be necessary.

  Iain



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