[olug] Eth0 works, now onto IPTables

[Phil Brutsche]

Quoting bbrush at unlnotes.unl.edu:

> 
> Ok new day, new problem.  How to get IPTables installed.  I downloaded
> the latest IPTables src.rpm and tried to RPM it.  No luck.  Apparently with
> the change from 6.2 to 7.1 Redhat changed their RPM version and the older
> version won't handle the newer rpms.  Likewise I can't use it for the
> newer version of RPM because the bloody thing is in the newer RPM format.

I think RH made rpm 4 available as a .rpm for RH 6.x systems - I'll have to
see if I can dig it out.

> I'm not adverse to downloading a tar file and building from that, but
> I'm going to need some info on where to put the bloody thing once it's
> built.
> 
> Has anyone on the list compiled IPTables from scratch before?

Yes.  Very simple:

extract
./configure
make
make install

> I'm going to go hunting a IPTables tar file while I wait for a reply.

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Phil

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