Bug 73710 - /sbin/ifup uses ipchains with kernel 2.4.18
Summary: /sbin/ifup uses ipchains with kernel 2.4.18
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 7.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-09-09 07:43 UTC by G.Wolfe Woodbury
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-09-09 19:38:49 UTC
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Description G.Wolfe Woodbury 2002-09-09 07:43:36 UTC 
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Description of problem:
ipchains use generates "incompatible with this kernel", but /sbin/ifup uses the
ipchains command to query firewall status.  I suspect that this is a phase error
in releasing. kernel 2.4.18-4;initscripts-6.67-1

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.examine the /sbin/ifup script.
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Additional info:
Comment 1 G.Wolfe Woodbury 2002-09-09 07:55:55 UTC 
kernel-2.4.18-10 package also has this problem.
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-09-09 19:38:42 UTC 
You may need to load the ipchains module first. Have you already loaded iptables?
Comment 3 G.Wolfe Woodbury 2002-09-10 02:11:44 UTC 
My bad.  Hadn't loaded the ipchains.o module.  Thanks for the tip
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