Bug 29087 – "/etc/init.d/ip6tables stop" fails because trying to flush nat table

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description SpanKY 2003-09-19 03:24:29 UTC]

In the Sys V init.d startup script for ip6tables, when stopping it tries to
flush the IPv6 nat table, which does not always exist, producing an error like this:

root@super/etc/init.d> ./ip6tables stop
 * Stopping firewall...
modprobe: Can't locate module ip6_tables
ip6tables v1.2.8: can't initialize ip6tables table `nat': Table does not exist
(do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.                     [ ok ]

It gets those table names from /proc/net/ip_tables_names, but it should actually
be /proc/net/ip6_tables_names, IMHO. This is in net-firewall/iptables-1.2.8-r1.

It does work when I add the '6':
Old:
                for a in `cat /proc/net/ip_tables_names`; do

New:
                for a in `cat /proc/net/ip6_tables_names`; do

[Comment 1 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) 2003-09-19 06:54:47 UTC]

Fixed, thanks for finding this! 

[Comment 2 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) 2003-09-19 06:55:10 UTC]

Fixed, thanks for finding this!