Re: need help getting ipchains goin'

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

coco the talking chimp (<captain_milkfart@hotmail.com>) wrote:

> ipchains not installed by default?  I thought Linux was made for
> networking.  Anyway, I'm not too familiar with this but here is my
> problem.  When I run ipchains it says incompatible with this kernel.
> I'm on compact debian 3.0 so kernel must be 2.2.2.0.  Modprobe
> ipchains says no such module.  Downloaded ipchains source.  README
> says kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL or
> CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_CHAINS set to 'y'.  Verify by checking for the
> existence of /proc/net/ip_fwchains.  I checked and no such file
> exists.  Is this a simple matter of downloading a module and using
> insmod or what?

Please set your line-wrapping to something around 72 characters.

You are using the Debian default installation kernel. The description
says:

This is a more compact version of the 2.2.20 kernel image; it is built
with less options enabled, and is originally packaged for the boot
floppies.

Switch to some other image like kernel-image-2.2.20. Use 

apt-cache search kernel-image 

to get a list and 

apt-cache show $packagename

to find out more about the packages.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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