Re: [tlug] Is having no "iptables" bad?

[Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com>]

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:22:32 +0900
Dave M G <martin@example.com> wrote:

> I'm kind of confused right now. All the advice is not going in a single 
> direction.
We didn't want to confuse you. There are more possibilities to retrieve
an old config. Take your pick.
 
> Take the .config file from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-25-686/.config 
> and use that as my base reference file. I figure that's the one to go 
> with as it's the config file from the last installation I had before 
> upgrading the kernel. And since it was the Ubuntu config... well, I 
> don't know why that would be good, but since I'm using Ubuntu, an Ubuntu 
> config file should be a good thing, shouldn't it?
Should be the one then.
 
> The thing is that I don't see how I'm supposed to know what modules I 
> should need. Like, how was I ever going to guess that ip_tables would be 
> an issue? How can I know what the next issue will be?
You don't need to know. The ubuntu developers already did that job for
you. This is why I gave you the advice to use the config in ubuntu. If you
don't touch it, you can compile the exact same kernel ubuntu has (if the
kernel source is also from ubuntu, but distro patches don't matter that
much). So by default, you should have netfilter/iptables support enabled
in that config, no need to bother with tweaking the config much.

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