On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, David Gardi wrote: > > I've just switched to 2.4.x on my laptop, and it was painless. I'm about > > to do the same on a desktop that runs a firewall using my old original > > ipfwadm rules, which are magically translated by debian (potato/2.2.x) > > into (i think) ipchains. > > > > Is there someplace I can find instructions to convert to iptables? Is > > there a similar on-the-fly conversion script?
> If you intend to switch to iptables from ipchains, > I strongly suggest you to take a look at http://netfilter.samba.org/ Oh, are you saying that (initially) I can just install 2.4.17 and leave my ipfwadm stuff as-is and the ipchains script will still work? I'd switch to iptables eventually, but if the old stuff will still work I don't have to figure out how iptables work _before_ I install the new kernel. ...RickM...