This is so annoying but anyone know what's the deal with linodes implementation of Centos? The kernels all don't have all the iptables modules working like ip_recent to rab not working out the box. I even have to set MONOKERN to 1 just to get it working which I don't recall any xen host I've been having this problem.

Anyone using apf with an o/s in linode that works for all enabled options? Thanks.

http://library.linode.com/linode-platfo ... o#centos_5

A few days ago I wrote this script and procedure to switch a standard CentOS 5 Linode to use the standard CentOS kernel as installed and updated through yum. You may want to modify the script though to disable the selinux installation/enabling portions, but this will apparently solve your problem.

You are THE MAN!

You gave a easy resolution to a problem which shouldn't exist in the first place.

Seriously being told to build a custom kernel for reasonable functionality of iptables is a bit ridiculous.

$ zgrep RECENT /proc/config.gz 
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_RECENT=y
# CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_RECENT_PROC_COMPAT is not set

What's ridiculous is CentOS freaking out about kernels that compile everything in instead of using modules. But I guess I can't blame them; they aren't obligated to support anything but their own kernels.

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Matt Nordhoff (aka Peng on IRC)