[Fwd: Re: POM raw patch for 2.4.30]

Forwarding my mail... netfilter-devel doesn't get much attention :)

Hmm. I'm expierencing same errors as this guy:
https://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2003-November/013193.html

20:17 gw:/var/log# strace iptables -I FORWARD -d 192.168.0.3 execve("/sbin/iptables", ["iptables", "-I", "FORWARD", "-d", "192.168.0.3"], [/* 17 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="gw.lan", ...}) = 0
brk(0) = 0x8054834
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40017000

access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=11699, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 11699, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40018000
close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY)       = 3

read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0p\34\0\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=9872, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 8632, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4001b000 old_mmap(0x4001d000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x2000) = 0x4001d000

close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/libnsl.so.1", O_RDONLY)      = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0000<\0\000"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=73528, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 84864, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4001e000
old_mmap(0x40030000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x11000) = 0x40030000
old_mmap(0x40031000, 7040, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40031000
close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)        = 3

read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\200^\1"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1244016, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 1254180, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40033000 old_mmap(0x4015b000, 32768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x127000) = 0x4015b000 old_mmap(0x40163000, 8996, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40163000
close(3) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40166000

munmap(0x40018000, 11699)               = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x8054834
brk(0x8075834)                          = 0x8075834
brk(0)                                  = 0x8075834
brk(0x8076000)                          = 0x8076000
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_RAW)  = 3

getsockopt(3, SOL_IP, 0x40 /* IP_??? */, "filter\0@p\373\377\277\26\272\0@\324o\1@h\177\1@\1\0\0"..., [84]) = 0
getsockopt(3, SOL_IP, 0x41 /* IP_??? */, "filter\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., [28112]) = 0 open("/lib/iptables/libipt_standard.so", O_RDONLY) = 4
read(4, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\220\3\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2136, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 5596, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x40018000
old_mmap(0x40019000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 4, 0) = 0x40019000
close(4) = 0
setsockopt(3, SOL_IP, 0x40 /* IP_??? */, "filter\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 28324) = -1 ELOOP (Too many levels of symbolic links) write(2, "iptables: Too many levels of sym"..., 44iptables: Too many levels of symbolic links
) = 44
exit_group(1) = ?

But:
20:19 gw:/var/log# iptables -I FORWARD -d 192.168.0.3 -j ACCEPT 20:21 gw:/var/log#

and in my kern.log i've got:

Apr 21 20:16:01 gw kernel: ip_tables: table screwed up!
Apr 21 20:17:20 gw kernel: ip_tables: table screwed up!

Could anyone look up what's causing this?