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Re: ipchains and 2.4



>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Arden <Jason@packet-man.net> writes:

    Jason> Hello everyone...  I have migrated over from Redhat and
    Jason> Mandrake to Debian and am loving it. I had compiled 2.2.18
    Jason> successfully a few months ago and had been using it
    Jason> awhile. I heard that 2.4 became stable so I compiled it and
    Jason> installed it...  I cannot get ipchains to work... Im not
    Jason> sure if I missed something in the config or if it doesnt
    Jason> support it at all. I noticed there was an option to install
    Jason> Network Packet filtering which replaced ipchains... Did I
    Jason> miss something or is ipchains not supported at all?

ipchains is considered obsolete, and support needs to be specifically
compiled into the kernel (for 2.4.x).

Suggestion: Use iptables instead.
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>



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