Once upon a time many moons ago i was given a development snapdragon board, pre FCC approval, for testing and application development. Rather quickly i had to c

Once upon a time many moons ago i was given a development snapdragon board, pre FCC approval, for testing and application development. Rather quickly i had to contact my Qualcomm rep to inform them that iptables was missing. Not sure what i meant, they put me in contact with an engineer who scoffed at me and told me that i just needed to install the iptables binary from apt. I then showed him that no, the iptables binary was present and giving me an error i had never seen before: warning iptables is not present in this kernel. He went white and made a quick phone call and i was awarded for my discovery. Since then i have been fairly skeptical of qualcomm... Great hardware but that incident was somehow very alarming to me as it is not possible to disable iptables normally in kconfig so they had been mucking about in the source tree of the firewall enough to break it. I wonder what happened there.