Deleted ...deleted ...

it would be great if you could leave the problem you had and post what you did to fix it... this way it might prove useful to someone else... having a thread that reads "deleted" is kinda pointless...

I tried to del the thread but it doesn't seem to be possible (despite what the help says).

The problem was that I was unable to get a firewall activated - I was getting strange errors. I'd rolled my own (compiled) kernel 2.6.16.13 but was getting errors about ip_tables stuff that was missing ... only thing was that I couldn't find any of the stuff missing in "make menuconfig" (why no search facility??).

Anyway, it struck me after posting that all I really needed to do was fix the kernel compilation and the rest should drop in ... it did, I'm not sure how my approach altered, I did use "make xconfig".

So, I deleted it all as I didn't see it actually being useful as I was barking up the wrong tree. I'll have a look for the error messages and repost them ...

cool... BTW, it's a good idea to recompile iptables after you upgrade your kernel...