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Re: Iptables: not recommended by Debian?



On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 05:47:14PM -0800, calyth wrote:
> All,
> I was downloading iptables, and was going to set it up on a box so that 
> it would be my router...
> After downloading the iptables package, it says that iptables was not 
> recommended by Debian. Given the server was using the stable distro.
> Is there any reason why it should do so?
> Also any good tutorials for setting up NAT / Masquerading using 
> iptables? I'm reading one of the tutorials from netfilter.org and it's 
> taking way too long for me to read.....

In addition to what everyone else said, go install a 'proper' kernel.
apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-<cputype> and follow the
instructions carefully.

-- 
Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org>				http://ertius.org/

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