hi ya i donno what all the major features/advances of iptables is over ipchains..but...
ipchains runs under 2.4.x kernels if you enable the "ipchains" modules in the firewall config section of the kernel - ipchains runs unmodified under 2.4... if you are using a generic 2.4.x kernel with all the modules.. insmod ipchains ipchains -L ... c ya alvin http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Firewall On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Rick Macdonald wrote: > 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. >