On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Pollywog wrote: > > just to make sure -- did i simply not see ipchains or was it really replaced > > by netfilter? > > It is possible to keep using ipchains by compiling the appropriate kernel > module. I was using it until I got iptables working. cool - i'd like to do this until i get a chance to sit down and learn netfilter. i assume i can simply cd into /usr/src/linux-2.2.17/wherever and do a modprobe -a ipchains.o?
what is the appropriate module? > > i'd like to learn how to drop packets coming from a particular host -- is > > there a netfilter howto yet? i didn't see anything on LDP. > > There is one on Debiandiary (or a link to one) and there are some ready-made > iptables scripts. sorry, i'm pretty new to debian. what is debiandiary? pete