On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:31:01AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 20/01/02 Colin Watson did speaketh: > [snip...] > Strange. I read an article in the Linux Journal that stated that many > people were upset in the 2.0 to 2.2 transition because they had to drop their > tried and tested ipfwadm scripts, so for 2.2 to 2.4, they promised that 2.4 > would be backwards compatible with ipchains scripts, not making use of any of > the new features, but working. I 2.4 kernels you can enable backward comta^H^Hpatability.. (whatever) - by setting CONFIG_IP_NF_COMPAT_IPCHAINS (at least on 2.4.13). I found that after a 'modprobe ipchains', my "old" firewall scripts worked flawlessly. > Mike -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ... An rfc2324 advocate http://www.rfc.net/rfc2324.html
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