About iptables and layer7 in Fedora 16

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/21/2012 06:15 PM, Jatin K wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 March 2012 03:03 PM, Cristian Sava wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I need to use something like
>>
>> ...>iptables -A FORWARD -m layer7 --l7proto bittorrent -j DROP
>>
>> and I get this message:
>>
>> "iptables v1.4.12: Couldn't load match `layer7':No such file or
>> directory"
>>
>> Do I need to recompile the kernel, the layer7 module and so on?
>> If so, any kernel update will destroy this.
>> Any easy solution?
>>
>> C. Sava
>>
>>
> module is loaded ????   check it with " modprobe  -l | grep ipt_layer7    ( not
> sure its ipt_layer7 or what ... )
>
> if not load it with modeprobe ipt_layer7 , then try to add the rule
>
>

If that module existed, wouldn't you expect it to be under

/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/    ?

If so, looking there shows there is no such module on F16.




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