From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 Description of problem: iptables init script does not support "nomodules" boot parameter Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Recompile kernel with no modules 2. add "nomodules" in grub options in startup 3. On load /etc/init.d/iptables occours fail Actual Results: FAIL Expected Results: Load rules and start firewall Additional info:
Monotihic netfilter is not supperted. The newer versions of the iptables init script do have a option named "IPTABLES_MODULES_UNLOAD". Set this in /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config to "no"; this might work for you.