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FOLLOW THESE STEPS:
0) There may be some outstanding bugfixes or tweaks which are not yet
in the official kernel. Those are now (as of iptables-1.2.7) kept
in a seperate package, called patch-o-matic. It is available from
ftp://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/patch-o-matic/
1) Next, make the package.
% make KERNEL_DIR=<<where-you-built-your-kernel>>
2) Finally, you need to to install the shared libraries, and the binary:
# make install KERNEL_DIR=<<where-you-built-your-kernel>>
If you are a developer, you can install the headers, development libraries
and associated development man pages, with:
# make install-devel
That's it!
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PROBLEMS YOU MAY ENCOUNTER:
1) This package requires a 2.4.4 kernel, or above.
2) If you get the kernel directory wrong, you may see a message like:
Please try `make KERNEL_DIR=path-to-correct-kernel'
3) If you want to specify alternate directories for installation
(instead of /usr/local/ bin lib man), do this:
% make BINDIR=/usr/bin LIBDIR=/usr/lib MANDIR=/usr/man
# make BINDIR=/usr/bin LIBDIR=/usr/lib MANDIR=/usr/man install
4) If you want to build a statically linked version of the iptables binary,
without the need for loading the plugins at runtime (e.g. for an embedded
device or router-on-a-disk), please use
% make NO_SHARED_LIBS=1
NOTE: make sure you build with at least the correct LIBDIR=
specification, otherwise iptables(8) won't know where to find the
dynamic objects.