Hi, I've just recompiled the kernel on my Slackware machine, and iptables doesn't work any more: # iptables -L modprobe: Can't locate module ip_tables iptables v1.2.7a: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. (I compiled netfilter into the kernel non-modularly) I recompiled iptables, but the same problem. I've tried patch-o-matic (although none of the patches it offers seem directly related to my problem) and removed ipchains - same thing. Judging by google it seems lots of people are having this problem, unfortunately not many people seem to have an answer. Strangely the netfilter website has nothing on this problem either. What's really annoying is that I had this happen last year on a machine, and I did fix it. Cheers, pete