Re: iptables in potato
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Acheron wrote:
>Theres no package for netfilter in stable, however a build from source
>is fairly trivial. The source for the iptables tools can be had at
>http://netfilter.samba.org
>There are packages in testing / unstable, btw.
You should probably try using the pinning feature of apt to use the
iptables package in testing, rather than building your own (as their will
probably be fewer bugs than in a Debian package that has had a few
revisions.
You can find more information on pinning at
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2002/1/mail#1
>>1. If I use my existing ipchains firewall script with 2.4, I've heard that it
>>will in fact work, of course not making use of any of the cool netfilter
>>features. Is this accurate?
I believe so, you just need to edit it a bit to load the appropriate
module for dealing with ipchains, but I've never used it. BTW, look at
http://netfilter.samba.org to find the HOWTO for iptables, and NAT in 2.4.
You won't find it on linuxdoc ;)
Cameron Kerr
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