On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 04:51:26AM -0600, Dave Price wrote: | It sets up with a 2.2.20 kernel and returns uname= 2.2.20-idepci. | | I am trying to use this as a firewall system. The system appears to | have iptables installed (even an init script and 'empty' config, but | when I try to do the commands in the howto's (even the modprobes) they | seem to fail, there do not appear to be any of the required ip_table | modules on the system. | | Is anyone elso familiar with this 'distro'? do I need to recompile my | kerenel to a 2.4 to get the ip_tables stuff, or am I missing something? | | Any advice as to how to figure out what iptables capabillies I have in | this system already would be greatly appreciated.
There are 2 parts to firewalling in linux :
o the kernel modules that do the real work
o the user-space program to tell the kernel what you want it to do
You can have the user-space program installed even without the
necessary kernel support. 2.2 kernels don't have iptables, they use
the older "ipchains". If you want to use iptables you'll need a 2.4
kernel. Otherwise install the 'ipchains' package and use it.
-D
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