Shorewall users - Sep 2003 - DIFFICULTIES in UPGRADING to LINUX 2.4.21 with IPTABLES/NETFILTER 1.28; tips welcome

using custom kernel required rebuilding the userspace binary for iptables.  
in my implementation of netfilter/iptables (LEAF Bering Shorewall) iptables 
was deliberately built without libnsl.so.1, but iptables 1.28 requires 
libnsl.so.1 if compiled with modules/extensions (libipt_*.so).  i compiled 
iptables monolithically (make NO_SHARED_LIBS=1), and rebooted.

now iptables refuses to use /etc/services to reference port/service 
mnemonics (ssh, ftp, ftp-data) and these must be coded as numbers.  
otherwise it works, and netfilter/bering shorewall starts successfully.

any tips to resolve these annoyances are welcome.



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Hi r_quincy,

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, r_quincy wrote:
>using custom kernel required rebuilding the userspace binary for iptables.
>in my implementation of netfilter/iptables (LEAF Bering Shorewall) iptables
As stated on the Shorewall "Getting Help" web page:

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    If you run Shorewall under Bering -- please post your question or
problem to the LEAF Users mailing list (leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net).
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Since your question is not about Shorewall, this is the wrong list.

-Jason