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

On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 09:18:26 AM Always Learning wrote:
> 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

It's less than ideal to install anything from source, as Karanbir has so correctly pointed out downthread.

Sometimes it is necessary; but it is never ideal, for the reasons KB stated.