Oh .. a quick way to check is:
    #    lsmod
and examine the modules
to force iptables in:
   insmod ip_tables
This is what mine looks like:
[herrold@router herrold]$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ip_nat_ftp              3792   0 (unused)
iptable_filter          2240   0 (autoclean) (unused)
ip_conntrack_irc        2976   0 (unused)
ip_conntrack_ftp        2448   0 (unused)
ipt_MASQUERADE          1680   1
ipt_REJECT              2496   0 (unused)
ipt_LOG                 3856   0 (unused)
iptable_nat            15968   1 [ip_nat_ftp ipt_MASQUERADE]
ip_conntrack           15824   3 [ip_nat_ftp ip_conntrack_irc \
    ip_conntrack_ftp ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat]
ip_tables              11488   7 [iptable_filter              \
    ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG iptable_nat]
eepro100               16688   2 (autoclean)
usb-uhci               20848   0 (unused)
usbcore                49632   1 [usb-uhci]
[herrold@router herrold]$
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Douglas Koobs wrote:
> Well, I think ipchains was loaded.
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