DroidWall does not work on rooted Motorola Milestone (2.0.1) "iptables not found" about droidwall HOT 26 CLOSED

I was told, that http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/ brings an own 
iptables
with it. Maybe this would also the solution for this problem?

Can you please try to install this application and let me know the results?
If that works I may try to implement a similar approach on Droid Wall.

Thanks

I just installed this onto my rooted Droid and get the same error code. Would 
love to get this working so I can 
control which apps get access.
Thanks

@Rodrigo: Of course I can install wifi tether. But how can I use iptables from 
this
app with DroidWall? (Sorry, I am not so deep into Android... Linux/Unix is no 
problem.)
Just tell me exactly what I should try.

@rhcnbg: If the wifi tether application install the iptables executable in the 
system
path you should be able to run Droid Wall after installing AND running wifi 
tether.

I still suspect that it will miss a netfilter kernel module required by Droid 
Wall -
if that is the case you will receive a different error message when trying to 
apply
the rules on Droid Wall. That can probably be fixed by shipping the kernel 
module
with Droid Wall tough.

I'll try asap. In a German android forum I was told that the milestone kernel 
does
include everything that is needed, only iptables is missing.

=> /data/data/android.tether/bin/iptables

Does not work if wifi tether is just installed. But now I have iptables on the 
phone.
Where shall I place it?

Copied iptables to /system/bin => DroidWall is working! :-)

Awesome!

I will keep this issue opened as a future enhancement. I will try to implement a
behavior similar to wifi tether.

Pls I downloaded droidwall on my HTC hero running on 3.2 modaco Rom wit 
wireless tethering but its 
not working...I get a message "error applying iptable rules. Exit code 1...pls 
help me I really need dis 
app...thanx

It would be nice if DroidWall could include its own iptables, although anybody 
smart 
enough to root their Droid/Milestone should also be able to copy iptables, but 
it's 
just an added hassle.
Couldn't you just make DroidWall also check for iptables in the location where 
WiFi 
Tether puts it?

Here it also seems that after a reboot, though the rules still are shown 
correctly, I
have to aply them again to get it working...

So maybe you should include simething like an auto-apply at startup of the 
phone...

@rhcnbg If you press "Show Rules" after a reboot and it displays a non-empty 
list of
rules it means that the rules were correctly applied by iptables. DroidWall 
already
auto-apply at startupt of the phone.

If the "Show Rules" is empty after a reboot, I would appreciate a logcat output
catpture of your reboot.

moto droid with netfilter enabled kernel. Using DroidMod 1.0
i have moved iptables from wifi tether to /system/bin.
After selecting app and applying rules i get "Exit Code: 1 - iptables: No
chain/target/match by that name"  

@fonebox this happens because your kernel was compiled without the "netfilter 
owner"
kernel module. netfilter has a bunch of optional extra modules, and the "owner"
module must be enabled in the kernel configuration to allow filtering in a
"per-application" basis. If you use a custom ROM, you can probably request the 
ROM
developer to enable this kernel module in the next releases. Regards

Have droid w/ stained glass rom.  Getting error 127, no iptables.  Can't find 
the directory with the 
iptables to copy as suggested (even with files unhidden in astro).  Can someone 
provide the iptables for 
me to put in that directory or provide another workaround.

When I try to run android-wifi-tether, it complains "No Netfilter!".  (Barnacle 
wifi 
tether works great!)

With android-wifi-tether installed, I still can't find iptables.  When mounting 
the 
device I don't see the root directory.  And AndExplorer doesn't seem to work 
right.

How to I move the iptables directory around?

(Moto Droid 2.1)

Explicit instructions to copy the file:
1. Download http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/ and install.
2. Superuser
    $ su
2. Remount system as rw (can use Droid Root Helper app to do this)
    # mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
3. Copy iptable to system executables directory
    # cp /data/data/android.tether/bin/iptables /system/bin

However, I get this error:
"Error applying iptables rules. Exit code: 3
iptables v1.3.7: can't initialize iptables table 'filter': iptables who? (do 
you need
to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded."

Moto Droid, Android 2.0

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with out mess with binrys in the /system it also work just with a symlink:

1. Download http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/ and install.
2. switch to root
    $ su
2. Remount system as rw (can use Droid Root Helper app to do this)
    # mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
3. add syslink iptable to the android.tether directory
    # ln -s  /system/bin/iptables /data/data/android.tether/bin/iptables
4. remount the system as ro!
    # mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

it work for me on a Milestone with 2.1

does the same on a rooted Xperia X10.
Unfortunately the android wifi tether fix does not work ad wifi tether 
complaisna bout netfilter not being there and force closes.

the same on LG GT540
no iptables, no netfilter, no alternative kernels/firmwares :)

Version 1.4.0 now ships with a bundled iptables :)

Using 1.4.5 on rooted LG GT540 with default LG 2.1 ANDROID ROM. And am 
receiving the above mentioned error.

@tomi.urankar, can you please post here the contents of the /proc/cpuinfo file? 
You can use a file explorer for example to read that file. Thanks