[CentOS] Shorewall and the latest kernel problem

Thu Nov 12 16:36:05 UTC 2015
Александр Кириллов <nevis2us at infoline.su>

> I just installed the latest kernel 2.6.32-573.8.1.el6.x86_64 and when
> I rebooted it shorewall (shorewall-4.5.4-1.el6.noarch) failed with the
> following error
> 
> ERROR: a non-empty masq file requires NAT in your kernel and iptables
> /etc/shorewall/masq (line 15)

FYI

I have the same kernel (2.6.32-573.8.1.el6.x86_64) and shorewall 
(shorewall-4.5.4-1.el6.noarch) versions and non-empty 
/etc/shorewall/masq here and do not see this problem.

Try as root: service shorewall restart.