Thanks to Guillaume and Matt for responding to my questions. I am sure I will have more to follow. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guillaume wrote: I don't know SLES7. FWIW, just some precisions about netfilter/ipchains/iptables.
> Netfilter and iptables are the same thing -- I think. If I remember > correctly, ipchains was installed by default on SLES7. I think Ihad to get > iptables off of the developer CDs. Netfilter is the actual filter/nat framework in the 2.4 kernels. Iptables refers to the standard userspace tools used to configure netfilter. But it would be possible to write another one. Ipchains refers both to the nat/filter code of the 2.2 kernels and to the userspace tool used to configure the kernel part. Due to the modular nature of netfilter, it's been possible to write a ipchains compatibility plugin for netfilter. So you can use the ipchains binary to configure netfilter (provided your kernel supports it) but you can use all of its advanced features. Guillaume Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt wrote: Netfilter and iptables are the same thing -- I think. If I remember correctly, ipchains was installed by default on SLES7. I think Ihad to get iptables off of the developer CDs. We used SuSEfirewall2 under SLES7 (as well as SLES8 now) to configure our firewalls/iptables. It's a pretty ok script and it seems to be really complete. Lots of things in the script that some may not think about setting if they were building a firewall from scratch. Matt Lashley Idaho State Controller's Office ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks.................... Regards, Terry L. Spaulding IBM Global Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]
