On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:16:09PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
| I'd like to upgrade my home machine's kernel to 2.4.18, but I'm not too
| excited about moving from ipchains to iptables. (This machine acts as a
| router from the home network [on eth0] and our DSL service [eth1].) So, a
| few questions:
|
| - How easy or hard is it to migrate an ipchains ruleset to iptables?
It wasn't hard for me.
| - Is it possible/adviseable to use ipchains under 2.4.18?
It is possible. I moved to iptables anyways. There's a module
(ipchains.o?) for ipchains compatibility. You can't mix-n-match,
though.
| - What documentation should I read?
The netfilter HOWTO (http://netfilter.samba.org)
-D
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