[CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 & 'string-less' IP tables

[Always Learning]

On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 09:01 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:

> On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 10:24:41 PM Always Learning wrote: 

> > uname -a =  2.6.35.4 #2  (don't know how this got installed)

> This is not a CentOS-provided kernel; as has been said elsewhere
> in the thread, this is likely an OpenVZ kernel.  Your hosting
> provider will have to install the modules necessary to make this
> function.  If they either cannot or will not, then you can't use
> the options you want to use.

A very helpful and knowledgeable poster, Walter Haidinger, in his email
dated Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:10:16 +0200 (12:10 BST), gave what appears to
be an ideal solution.

	* get a more recent iptables from netfilter.org

	* install to a different location

	* how to install it

The server provider's suggestion

	modprobe ipt_string

did not work so I have mention to them the OpenVZ comments made by
several posters.

>  ... OpenVZ container (VPS) ... is so different from 'real' CentOS.

So I am observing.

Thank you.

Paul.