On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 11:12:09PM +0100, Mick wrote > On Thursday 07 September 2006 22:26, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > I'm on baselayout-1.12.4-r7, and I invoke ppp for dialup with > > pon/poff. I use pppconfig for setup. Is it safe for me to delete > > the files? > > It is safer to mv them to a different name/place. Mine worked fine > after I renamed them and completed the emerge. Dohhhh. I feel stupid for missing the obvious solution. Dialup works OK without those files. I checked. At least I managed to figure out the iptables problem. A year ago, I included just about everything in iptables via "make menuconfig". This has been inherited by subsequent kernels via "make oldconfig". When that blew up on me Wednesday, I had to *MANUALLY* re-enter everything into "make menuconfig". There was a bunch of new stuff, so I read the "Help" for items I wasn't sure about. In that process, I decided I don't need raw or mangle support. I'm not doing any NAT stuff; my Netgear router/modem handles that. So this time around, I did not include raw or mangle. However, I left in the references in /var/lib/iptables/rules-save, which started like so... # Generated by iptables-save v1.3.5 on Wed Sep 6 18:41:29 2006 *raw :PREROUTING ACCEPT [8675812:8112852860] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [7421674:1137157572] COMMIT # Completed on Wed Sep 6 18:41:29 2006 # Generated by iptables-save v1.3.5 on Wed Sep 6 18:41:29 2006 *mangle :PREROUTING ACCEPT [75679798:80347321466] :INPUT ACCEPT [75679763:80347310753] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [60668907:37528863764] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [60668897:37528208414] COMMIT # Completed on Wed Sep 6 18:41:29 2006 # Generated by iptables-save v1.3.5 on Wed Sep 6 18:41:29 2006 *filter ... I simply deleted every line before "*filter" and iptables now works OK. It doesn't attempt to use raw or mangle, which I haven't built. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
