Bug 14219 – IPTABLES: INVALID ARGUMENT

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Glenn Aitchison 2003-01-20 01:20:46 UTC]

Ive installed 1.4rc2 and kernel 2.4.20 but no matter what i do when i compile i get the 
errror when i try the command iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j 
MASQUERADE Invalid Argument

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-01-20 09:28:09 UTC]

what does your machine show when you grep for these values ? 
 
root@rux0r net # grep CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT /usr/src/linux/.config 
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=y 
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y 
# CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_LOCAL is not set 
# CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_SNMP_BASIC is not set 
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_IRC=m 
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_FTP=m 
root@rux0r net # grep CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK /usr/src/linux/.config 
CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK=y 
root@rux0r net #  

[Comment 2 Glenn Aitchison 2003-01-21 01:27:02 UTC]

p3-667 root # grep CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT /usr/src/linux/.config 
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=y 
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y 
# CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_LOCAL is not set 
# CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_SNMP_BASIC is not set 
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_IRC=y 
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_FTP=y 
p3-667 root # grep CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK 
 
p3-667 root # grep CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK /usr/src/linux/.config 
CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK=y 
p3-667 root # 
 
 
 
 

[Comment 3 Glenn Aitchison 2003-01-21 01:30:28 UTC]

Created attachment 7492 [details]
config file causing problems : iptables invalid argument

please have a look to see what is wrong..... im trying iptables -t nat -A
POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE

[Comment 4 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-01-21 05:47:25 UTC]

did you compile your kernel with this settings and boot with the new kernel ?

[Comment 5 Glenn Aitchison 2003-01-21 12:35:51 UTC]

Yes...

[Comment 6 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-01-21 14:21:28 UTC]

do you use gentoo-sources ?

[Comment 7 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2003-01-21 14:25:47 UTC]

due to changes to the iptables core that caused the need to rebuild iptables
against this kernel, I've dropped the tcp-window-tracking patch from the ebuild,
remerging either iptables OR this kernel and should fix0r this.

[Comment 8 Thomas Raschbacher 2004-09-28 07:40:24 UTC]

got the same problem.

didn't work with _all_ the iptables versions currently in portage .. i tried 1.2.8-r2 (from cvs attic) and it worked ..

could/should this be added again to the tree ?

[Comment 9 Karol Wojtaszek (RETIRED) 2004-11-26 14:07:03 UTC]

There is iptables-1.2.9 in portage stable. Can we close this bug?

[Comment 10 Robin Johnson 2005-05-03 02:32:04 UTC]

no response after 5 months, closing bug.