On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Michael Thompson wrote: > What do I need to do to enable the TARPIT match in IPTables? > > I have version 1.2.11 of IPTables and I am running Kernel 2.4.28-gentoo-r5 > > When I try and add a tarpit rule, such as > > iptables -A INPUT -p TCP --dport 80 -j TARPIT > > I get back > > iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
Some modules need to be explicitly loaded with the -m flag. Assuming you have the tarpit modules compiled and installed, you would use this to load it: iptables -A INPUT --protocol tcp --dport 80 -m tarpit -j TARPIT -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
