Hi;

I understand you are talking neither about about shorewall nor 
/etc/init.d/iptables (start/stop/restart), which seesm to work, but plain 
iptables(-restore) binary?

kp

Am Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2017, 10:15:03 schrieb John Sager:
> I'm trying to get 6.0.2-rc1 working on a PC Engines apu2c2 but there are
> problems with loading modules in some cases. I note that the moddb stuff has
> been removed and all module loading is now done from modules.sqfs mounted
> to /lib/modules/$KVER. Although this works at early boot time to load
> modules in /etc/modules it fails later on for iptables-restore and
> ip6tables-restore. iptables and ip6tables autoload modules as needed for the
> specific rules required. Although the scripts in /etc/init.d for iptables &
> ip6tables mount modules.sqfs to load the helper modules in IPTABLES_MODULES
> they don't for the -restore operation. iptables-restore is effectively just
> a wrapper round iptables so it autoloads modules in the same way.
> 
> There are other configuration applications that operate closely with the
> kernel - e.g tc - and perhaps some of them also autoload modules as
> necessary. They will also fail in the absence of a mounted modules.sqfs, as
> will ad-hoc use of iptables during testing of new configurations in a
> working environment.
> 
> For the moment I will solve it by creating a version of /etc/modules from a
> lsmod listing once everything is running properly but a better solution than
> that is needed. Are there issues with mounting modules.sqfs permanently?
> Would mounting /dev/sda1 permanently & readonly interfere with mounting it
> readwrite temporarily somewhere else to update configdb.lrp?
> 
> regards,
> 
> John Sager
> 
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