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...eeing a strange error message: # iptables getsockopt failed strangely: No such file or directory There was nothing printed in the logs after the failure. After some investigation, I found that when ip_tables tries to load modules, we are returned -ENOENT when the module can't be loaded (from try_then_request_module). try_then_request_module tries to call the symbol xt_find_revision to satisfy this request. Unfortunately, the symbol isn't available, so it tries to load the module that contains it. If you haven't compiled the module it's requesting, you'll get -2 (-ENOENT) back, which is cau...