XT_COOVA not "called"?

[xewonder]

Hello

Coova-chilli is compiled with ENABLE_DEBUG ENABLE_ACCOUNTING_ONOFF ENABLE_BINSTATFILE ENABLE_CHILLIQUERY ENABLE_COA ENABLE_RADPROXY ENABLE_CHILLIREDIR ENABLE_DHCPRADIUS ENABLE_IEEE8021Q ENABLE_IPV6 ENABLE_JSON ENABLE_LEAKYBUCKET ENABLE_STATFILE ENABLE_TAP ENABLE_TCPRESET ENABLE_UAMANYIP ENABLE_UAMUIPORT HAVE_NETFILTER_COOVA HAVE_OPENSSL

On Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS

i have kname=chilli in chilli.conf

up.sh reports chilli as $kname

but lsmod shows xt_coova "used by 0"

Module Size Used by xt_coova 16384 0

and of course i get iptables v1.8.4 (legacy): Couldn't load match `coova':No such file or directory

Whats the problem?

Thank you

[xewonder]

further to my previous message, on openwrt i can see this: [ 73.502614] xt_coova: looking for chilli [ 73.510466] xt_coova: found chilli refcnt=4 [ 73.518953] xt_coova: match ret=0 [ 73.525600] xt_coova: looking for chilli [ 73.533518] xt_coova: found chilli refcnt=5 [ 73.541801] xt_coova: match ret=0 [ 73.548383] xt_coova: looking for chilli [ 73.556149] xt_coova: found chilli refcnt=6 [ 73.564429] xt_coova: match ret=0 [ 73.857124] xt_coova: looking for chilli [ 73.864959] xt_coova: found chilli refcnt=4 [ 73.873287] xt_coova: match ret=0 [ 73.879889] xt_coova: looking for chilli [ 73.887670] xt_coova: found chilli refcnt=5 [ 73.895957] xt_coova: match ret=0 [ 73.902510] xt_coova: looking for chilli [ 73.910281] xt_coova: found chilli refcnt=6 [ 73.918565] xt_coova: match ret=0 [ 76.427757] xt_coova: looking for chilli [ 76.435616] xt_coova: found chilli refcnt=4 [ 76.443924] xt_coova: match ret=0 [ 76.450513] xt_coova: looking for chilli [ 76.458287] xt_coova: found chilli refcnt=5 [ 76.466746] xt_coova: match ret=0 [ 76.473411] xt_coova: looking for chilli [ 76.481193] xt_coova: found chilli refcnt=6 [ 76.489629] xt_coova: match ret=0 [ 78.528999] xt_coova: looking for chilli [ 78.536889] xt_coova: found chilli refcnt=4 [ 78.545289] xt_coova: match ret=0 [ 78.551919] xt_coova: looking for chilli [ 78.559678] xt_coova: found chilli refcnt=5 [ 78.567962] xt_coova: match ret=0 [ 78.574525] xt_coova: looking for chilli [ 78.582289] xt_coova: found chilli refcnt=6 [ 78.590565] xt_coova: match ret=0

on Ubuntu I only see xt_coova ready

My idea (and i may be wrong) is that xt_coova never starts up properly and therefore does not create the proper iptables entries..

Hence the error:

iptables v1.8.4 (legacy): Couldn't load match `coova':No such file or directory

[nzamps]

I don't have time at the moment to look closer at this but the hits you see are iptables rule matches - that is the only way to get those messages. You need to double-check your rules are correct and module name is specified correctly in each rule ("-m coova --name chilli").

[xewonder]

Just shows you how little i know but how determined I am!

for me the solution to iptables v1.8.4 (legacy): Couldn't load match `coova':No such file or directory

is to copy libxt_coova.so to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xtables/libxt_coova.so

it looks like the coova-chilli install copies it to /usr/lib/xtables/libxt_coova.so (or my ./configure was screwed up)

now Iptables work and i get [ 109.378594] xt_coova: looking for chilli [ 109.378602] xt_coova: created chilli refcnt=1 [ 109.378604] xt_coova: match ret=0 [ 109.390688] xt_coova: looking for chilli [ 109.390692] xt_coova: found chilli refcnt=2 [ 109.390694] xt_coova: match ret=0 [ 109.392109] xt_coova: looking for chilli [ 109.392113] xt_coova: found chilli refcnt=3 [ 109.392115] xt_coova: match ret=0 [ 166.262237] xt_coova: looking for chilli [ 166.262241] xt_coova: found chilli refcnt=4 [ 166.262243] xt_coova: match ret=0 [ 166.264645] xt_coova: looking for chilli [ 166.264650] xt_coova: found chilli refcnt=5 [ 166.264652] xt_coova: match ret=0

Now the actual fun of getting it to work!