Hi
I have installed in the new version of iptables 1.3.8 from the website on the Kernel 2.6.16. I have introduced a integer variable in the ipt_entry structure and after recompilation of the kernel and the iptables (although tried with out recompiling iptables); I have got the following error when the iptables has been loaded. Also the output of dmesg has been shown. I have tried with other threads in the section such as making firewall etc; but those didnt help as they show the error on the COMMIT command.

[root@localhost ~]# service iptables start
Flushing firewall rules: iptables: Unknown error 4294967295
iptables: Unknown error 4294967295
iptables: Unknown error 4294967295
iptables: Unknown error 4294967295
iptables: Unknown error 4294967295
iptables: Unknown error 4294967295
[FAILED]
Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: raw iptables: Unknown error 4294967295
mangle iptables: Unknown error 4294967295
filter iptables: Unknown error 4294967295
[FAILED]
Unloading iptables modules: [ OK ]

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dmesg output:
iptables: loop hook 3 pos 148 00000029.
iptables: loop hook 0 pos 472 00000029.
iptables: loop hook 0 pos 916 00FFFFFF.
iptables: loop hook 0 pos 0 00000021.
iptables: loop hook 1 pos 798 237000B2.
iptables: loop hook 0 pos 472 00000029.
iptables: loop hook 0 pos 0 00000021.
iptables: loop hook 1 pos 0 00000022.