Re: "iptables: No chain/target/match by that name"

[Brian McNally <bmcnally@u.washington.edu>]

Thanks, that did the trick. I wonder why the rule I specified works  
on other hosts without specifying '-t nat'.
--
Brian McNally


On Dec 21, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Jeremy Freeman wrote:

> Try putting a -t nat in there.. May solve your issue.
>
> --
> Jeremy
>
> Brian McNally wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 with the  
> > 2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp kernel and iptables 1.2.8. When I try and  
> > insert the following rule:
> > iptables -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to- 
> > ports 8080
> > I get the following error:
> >
> > iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
> >
> > $ lsmod | grep ipt
> > iptable_nat            22808   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> > ipt_REJECT              4632   1  (autoclean)
> > ipt_state               1080   5  (autoclean)
> > ip_conntrack           29800   2  (autoclean) [iptable_nat ipt_state]
> > iptable_filter          2412   1  (autoclean)
> > ip_tables              16544   6  [iptable_nat ipt_REJECT  
> > ipt_state iptable_filter]
> > Any ideas? I'm wondering if I'm missing a kernel module that  
> > iptables needs, but my understanding was that it should load the  
> > modules it needs on the fly.
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Brian McNally