IPCHAINS did the firewall job for me. Early versions of IPTABLES were OK too. But it eventually developed the Mozilla disease, and became a honking big routing/gatewaying/QOSing/singing/dancing monstrosity, of which I required only a small fraction of its "functionality". And I'm really confused as to which parts in netfilter/xtables/iptables I need to build into the kernel.
I need a firewall (or even just a packet-filter) that will operate with current Gentoo kernels, nothing more. I see a build for IPCHAINS. Does it work with 2.6.29 and higher kernels? Are there other alternatives in alternate overlays? I'm not a programmer, but I can expand a tarball and... ./configure --with-various-options && make && make install ...if necessary. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
