Good morning,

Last night I mistakenly typed

ipkg upgrade
   instead of
ipkg update

and got an upgrade of 7 or 8 packages. I'm not sure which one's.

After fighting through a couple iptables and dropbear issues, everything seems to be working fine again, EXCEPT the firewall is no longer logging. I use fwbuilder on my Gentoo box to generate the rules and have re-installed them. They are functioning properly, I believe, but can't tell for sure because nothing shows up in the logs.

iptables -nL looks right.

Does anyone have any ideas what I may have missed?

Thanks,
John

Maybe, while upgrading, if you did not had enough space to both upgrade iptables, and kmod-iptables (the kernel iptables stuff), there was a version difference between the iptables command and the kernel modules. But I am not sure of that.

Seems you messed up your OpenWrt installation. To make sure everything works normal reflash the OpenWrt distribution with mtd or TFTP.

For the future: Don't use "ipkg upgrade". The best way to upgrade to a new version is to reflash OpenWrt.

See mistake #7 in the PLEASE READ - Common mistakes thread too.

(Last edited by olli on 23 Dec 2005, 12:34)

No, no, no. I _meant_ to update package list. Happy fingers screwed up.

Looking at the log with logread, I note the following line

user.info : iptables v1.3.3:  Unknown arg `--log-level'

So, did iptables get upgraded? Right now iptables -h doesn't even show --log-level as an option, and I've been logging since I installed openWRT a couple months ago.

Thanks,
John

The current iptables ipkg doesn't have log support compiled in.
You'll probably need to install the iptables-mod-extra ipkg to get log support.

Cheers,
Martin.

Thank you, thank you, thank you !!!