Re: ip acct and devel. kernel
On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 11:15:26AM -0700, Max wrote:
> You (Stephen J. Carpenter) wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Max wrote:
> > > Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP
> > > accounting with the development kernel (2.1.121)? /proc/net/ip_acct
> > > doesn't exist and programs such as ipacset and ipfwadm complain about
> > > it. What's going on? Do I need to enable IP firewalling in the
> > > kernel? If so, that option is greyed out and I have no idea how to
> > > ungrey it so that I can enable it.
> >
> > ipfwadm doesn't work. 2.1.x kernels (later than 98 I think...I am not sure
> > since when) use a completely differnt way of working.
> >
> > The new command is ipchains and is completely differnt...
> > for a quick and easy cheat... there is ipfwadm-wrapper
> > heres the manpage snippit:
> > DESCRIPTION
> > Ipfwadm-wrapper emulates the behaviour of ipfwadm. You can
> > use this wrapper to use your old ipfwadm firewall rules
> > with ipchains. See ipfwadm(8) for more details.
> >
> > both are found on my debian system as part of netbase
>
> Thanks for your help, but it looks like I still need to enable IP
> firewalling in the kernel because I get the following message with
> ipfwadm-wrapper:
>
> Generic IP Firewall Chains not in this kernel
>
> ipchains -L reports:
>
> ipchains: cannot open file `/proc/net/ip_fwnames'
>
> The question is how to enable firewalls when that option is greyed out
> in the kernel configuration menu. Any clues?
hmm is IP forwardign on? firewalling is kinda useless without
forwarding...somtimes another option turns it on...hmmm
I dunno I am using 2.1.120...havn't tried 2.1.121 yet...
-Steve
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