From: Robert Synnott (r.synnott at domain oceanfree.net)
Date: Thu 12 Sep 2002 - 23:15:55 IST
On Thursday 12 September 2002 09:21, Dermot Daly wrote:
> Hi All,
> I was trying to get iptables to work last night, but when I do a
> modprobe on iptables I get the following on stderr:
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o:
> init_module: Device or resource busy
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod
> ip_tables failed
> Stdout says something like :
> Hint: insmod can fail because of invalid IRQ or Base Address
> And also
> "You may need to upgrade iptables or your kernel"
>
> I thought I had chosen to include firewalling when installing my Linux,
> and also the iptables man pages, etc. are present (in fact my boot
> sequence claims to be starting iptables, though I've noticed that this
> will pipe stderr to /dev/null, so its hard to tell if it failing on
> startup).
>
> My System is a RH 7.3 and the ip_tables seems to be the latest version.
>
> iptables -V works fine, but trying anything else give the errors above.
>
> Any ideas ?
> Cheers,
> Dermot
You might want to try building the iptables tools from source against your
kernel. It seems to want to match the kernel precisely; at least this is how
I solved a similar problem
Bob
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