[Voyage-linux] Question - iptables cannot remove a rule ("bad rule" error) - possible bug?

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

  Hi Lukas,

This seems strange, Voyage and Debian Lenny use the same versions (1.4.2) of iptables.  The debian lenny can remove 
rules without the rules numbers but Voyage cannot.  One possible reason is the different in kernel version.

Regards,
Punky

On 10/11/2010 4:05 PM, Lukáš Pecha wrote:
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> Sorry, I'm posting it again - last message was somehow corrupted.
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>
> Hi Punky,
>
>   Yes, that's working. But the other way should be working too and is working on other systems. It's also in man pages of iptables:
>
>   -D, --delete chain rule-specification -D, --delete chain rulenum Delete one or more rules from the selected chain. There are two versions of this command: the rule can be specified as a number in the chain (starting at 1 for the first rule) or a rule to match. How can I use Shorewall on Voyage linux then? I don't think, that I can somehow force Shorewall to use rule numbers instead of rule specification...
>   ssdsa
>
>   Lukas
>
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>   Hi Lukas,
>
>   You need to put a rule number when delete a rule, see iptables -h
>
>   iptables -D chain rulenum [options]
>
>   - Punky
>
>   On 10/11/2010 1:32 PM, Lukáš Pecha wrote:
>   >  Hi,
>   >
>   >  I've recently installed Voyage 0.6.5 on my Alix board and when I started to configure Shorewall, I ran into an error>  with iptables.
>   >
>   >  Shorewall start ends when it tries to remove rule "/sbin/iptables -D INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j>  ACCEPT". It just says "Bad rule (does a matching rule exist in that chain?)".
>   >
>   >  I cleared up the iptables and tried to add the same rule and then remove it manually - it did the same thing again, so>  it's not Shorewall, but something with iptables. It's working fine on my other linux box (opensuse). Somehow, iptables>  don't find the rule, which I want to remove.
>   >
>   >  I have kernel version 2.6.30-voyage #1 PREEMPT, shorewall 4.0.15 and iptables 1.4.2 on my Voyage installation.
>   >
>   >  Does anyone know what to do with it or do you need more information (if yes, what kind of information do you need)?
>   >
>   >  Thanks in advance,
>   >  Lukas
>   >
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