firestarter failing to start dhcp

[espinosa_cz]

Binary package hint: firestarter

I'm using Firestarter successfully for for Internet connection sharing (laptop with two network cards - eth0 and ra0)
But another attractive function 'Enable DHCP for local network for the local network' is failing.

Firestarter -> Preferences -> Firewall -> Network Settings -> Local Network connected device ->
'Enable DHCP for local network for the local network'
Once this checkbox is checked, firewall doesn't (re)start

Console output with error message:

Failed to start DHCP server
iptables v1.3.5: Unknown arg `--icmp-type'
Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.

Also setting 'ICMP Filtering' is failing with galore of similar errors.

[codetiger (nharishankar)]

got the same problem. I cannot start firestarter, Whenever I start firestarter, it works fine but DHCP doesnt function and gives an error "Some unknown error"