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Anders

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-05-19

Posts: 48

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Shorewall 4.0.9 and iptables-restore issues

Hi,

I installed Arch Linux on my home router (old Pentium 3 PC) a long time ago. I used Shorewall 3.x, worked really nicely! However, I wanted to try out FreeBSD as a router so I installed that earlier, then I figured I didn't want to bother re-learning everything so I installed Arch again, but this time I would use Shorewall 4.x.

The Shorewall packages were outdated, so I modified them myself using ABS (shorewall[-perl]: 4.0.6, 4.0.5 -> 4.0.9) and installed them. So far so good... I configure shorewall using the two interfaces example and then I start it using "shorewall start":

Preparing iptables-restore input...
Running /usr/sbin/iptables-restore...
iptables-restore v1.3.8: Couldn't load target `Reject'

Error occurred at line: 64
Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more information.
   ERROR: iptables-restore Failed. Input is in /var/lib/shorewall/.iptables-restore-input

I talked to the shorewall author and he tried the .iptables-restore-input on his own computer and said it was just fine, which makes me think it's an Arch Linux issue. So I installed AL in VMware and it was just fine with the same configuration! I have no idea what's going on.

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Running: Arch Linux i686, x86_64, ppc