hans privat wrote:
hi,You have the iptables RPM installed. Good! But you must now delete the ipchains ROPM - use kpackage to do that.
in a sysadmin-book I've read, that with kernel 2.4 the "iptables"
should be used.
now I have done a lookup with lsmod and have seen, that there was NO
iptables but an ipchains.
then I have done a rmmod ipchains and was trying at first a modprobe iptables. the answer was " there is no iptables-modul", then I tried it again with insmod iptables, but got this here : [root@jojobaer /]# insmod iptables insmod: iptables: no module by that name found
Don't worry about this. Leave the kernel modules to look after themselves.
Now I was looking with locate iptables and have found it in
"/sbin/iptables".
Is there no module available, called "iptables" for mdk 8.2 ?
No.
That is the guts of it. You use this to install and maintain the iptables rules.and what is this prog "/sbin/iptables" ?
how to use it ?
man iptables
A very simple way to get set up is to download to /etc/iptables the rc.iptables-2.3.8pre7 script from:am sorry about my bloody questions, but have never done a job with masquerading and firewalls - so these are my first steps with it. right now I'm understanding only "moon" of about all these things. hope, anybody can help me here !!!!
http://monmotha.mplug.org/firewall/index.php
cd to /etc/iptables, and customise it with an editor as explained in the script, then:
./rc.firewall-2.3.8pre7
-- to install or reinstall it,
iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables
-- to save it from the kernel for auto reinstall after every boot
then you will have a nice firewall with masquerading, without even rebooting!
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