Re: ipchains, iptables, and 2.4.18
hi ya andrew
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> I'd like to upgrade my home machine's kernel to 2.4.18, but I'm not too
> excited about moving from ipchains to iptables. (This machine acts as a
> router from the home network [on eth0] and our DSL service [eth1].) So, a
> few questions:
>
> - How easy or hard is it to migrate an ipchains ruleset to iptables?
trivial to run ipchains under 2.4.18...
- just enable the ipchains compatability
- boot 2.4.18 in single user..
- insmod ipchains ( see if it works )... else make/compile
a kernel that supports ipchains
CONFIG_IP_NF_COMPAT_IPCHAINS=y
> - Is it possible/adviseable to use ipchains under 2.4.18?
depends... what is ipchains doing...
> - What documentation should I read?
( different docs for different answers/problems ?? )
ipchains and other related HOWTOs for starters??
have fun
alvin
http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Firewall/ .. firewall fun ...
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