diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4ff006f1e6..9866f593f0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-??
       option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
       /dev/pf before dropping privileges.  Fixes bug 782.  Patch from
       Christopher Davis.  Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
+    - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
+      when building against recent kernels.  Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
 
 
 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index d931ed4f6f..4872cb7a22 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS(netdb.h sys/ioctl.h sys/socket.h arpa/inet.h netinet/in.h pwd.h
 
 dnl These headers are not essential
 
-AC_CHECK_HEADERS(stdint.h sys/types.h inttypes.h sys/param.h sys/wait.h limits.h sys/limits.h netinet/in.h arpa/inet.h machine/limits.h syslog.h sys/time.h sys/resource.h inttypes.h utime.h sys/utime.h sys/mman.h netinet/in6.h malloc.h sys/syslimits.h malloc/malloc.h)
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS(stdint.h sys/types.h inttypes.h sys/param.h sys/wait.h limits.h sys/limits.h netinet/in.h arpa/inet.h machine/limits.h syslog.h sys/time.h sys/resource.h inttypes.h utime.h sys/utime.h sys/mman.h netinet/in6.h malloc.h sys/syslimits.h malloc/malloc.h linux/types.h)
 
 TOR_CHECK_PROTOTYPE(malloc_good_size, HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE_PROTOTYPE,
 [#ifdef HAVE_MALLOC_H
@@ -350,6 +350,15 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS(linux/netfilter_ipv4.h,
 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H
 #include <sys/socket.h>
 #endif
+#ifdef HAVE_LIMITS_H
+#include <limits.h>
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_LINUX_TYPES_H
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_NETINET_IN6_H
+#include <netinet/in6.h>
+#endif
 #ifdef HAVE_NETINET_IN_H
 #include <netinet/in.h>
 #endif])
diff --git a/src/or/connection_edge.c b/src/or/connection_edge.c
index 7fac80e960..a2bbaa3ac1 100644
--- a/src/or/connection_edge.c
+++ b/src/or/connection_edge.c
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ const char connection_edge_c_id[] =
 
 #include "or.h"
 
+#ifdef HAVE_LINUX_TYPES_H
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#endif
 #ifdef HAVE_LINUX_NETFILTER_IPV4_H
 #include <linux/netfilter_ipv4.h>
 #define TRANS_NETFILTER