I tried to get iptables running on the Zipit without any luck. Here is the type of error I get when attempting to run iptables:
FATAL: Module ip_tables not found. iptables: can't initialize iptables table `nat': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?)
From the research I’ve done, I believe that Aliosa27′s emdebian Zipit image does not have the packages necessary compiled into the kernel of emdebian in order to run iptables. So, I would need to add the packages and rebuild the kernel. The problem is, the emdebian image has broken packages and I’m not sure how to fix them. For instance, when attempting to install build-essential (the package required in order to build debian packages), it reports that g++ is broken and I don’t really know how to fix it.
So, here’s where I’m at. I want to run iptables on the Zipit. I can’t run iptables without recompiling the kernel with the appropriate packages to get iptables working. I can’t recompile the kernel without build-essential. Installing build-essential throws error, stating that g++ is a broken package. Therefore, I can’t get iptables running on the Zipit.
To be clear, I don’t know if this is a problem with emdebian or Aliosa27′s image of emdebian. I’m going to try and do some more discovery to find that out, and hopefully get iptables up and running on the Zipit.
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