Re: 2.4.18-pre9: iptables screwed?

From: Harald Welte (laforge@gnumonks.org)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 18:31:51 EST


On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:12:25PM +0000, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:

> > > sudo iptables-restore < /etc/sysconfig/iptables
> > > iptables-restore: libiptc/libip4tc.c:384: do_check: Assertion
> > > `h->info.valid_hooks == (1 << 0 | 1 << 3)' failed.
> > > Abort (core dumped)
>
> I've noticed this too.
>
> Apologies if this info is too late but I didn't see a followup to
> lkml.

The redhat iptables package has debugging enabled, and the debugging
code does not cope correctly with the new kernels.

We didn't assume that anybody is running debugging-enabled old iptables
versions on production systems, but I guess some unfortunate coincidence
caused this within the redhat package :(

> Nick Craig-Wood
> ncw@axis.demon.co.uk

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