Re: Mason Error

[Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz>]

On 05/21/2016 11:25 PM, Ralph Sanchez wrote:
> Mason is telling me my kernel doesnt support IPtable, Ipchains or the
> third option...iptables is installed. Kernel version 3.16.?? (i
> forget). Just wandering what's wrong here. Here's the terminal
> output...
> 
> onyx@FBI:~$ sudo mason
> Loading options from /etc/masonrc...Check vars...ipchains was not
> found in your path or in /sbin. You may need to copy it
> or add an explicit path to it in the following commands.
> ipfwadm was not found in your path or in /sbin. You may need to copy it
> or add an explicit path to it in the following commands.
> Editor default of /usr/bin/vi taken.
> Load IPs, networks and nameservers...Done.
> This kernel does not support ipchains, ipfwadm or iptables!
> ---- Mason firewall builder for Linux                         ----
> ---- see http://www.pobox.com/~wstearns/mason/ for more info. ----
> ---- William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>                     ----
> (This is release 1.0.0-11 - 2008-06-27 )
> 
> 
> Also, this is my first time setting up a firewall on Debian, so if
> there is a better package that's both powerful and user friendly, a
> nudge towardsit would be a greatly appreciated thing

you may consider to use nftables. The package is not installed by default.