[Shorewall-users] problem starting shorewall

[Sally Y. <sa...@ju...>]

Hello,

I'm using Shorewall version 1.4.4 with kernel version 2.4.20. I have 
installed the iproute2 package from a tarball and it all seems to be 
working fine. However I can't start Shorewall because it keeps telling me 
that "Error: Shorewall 1.4.4 requires the iproute package ('ip' utility)". 
I have read about a similar problem to this, but the solution involved 
installing an rpm without dependancies, which I cannot do as I'm running an 
LFS system. (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org).
Any help that anyone can give would be much appreciated :)

Kind Regards,
Sally Young