On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Harry Zink wrote:
> Just played around with upgrading one of my systems to 2.2.1 (up from
> RedHat 5.2/2.0.36), and one of the notable error messages Linuxconf
> provided me with was a notice that IP Forwarding was not part of my
> kernel.
This error is misleading. It is produced by the firewall module which is
not compatible with kernel 2.2. Disable this module and the error will go
away.
>
> Now, since I remember enabling pretty much all of the relevant IP
> features, I take it that the switch to IPChains might have something to
> do with that error - in accordance, all of my firewalling rules no longer
> work.
I am working on kernel 2.2.1 to make linuxconf compatible. There is a
problem with routing (in some case), ip aliasing and firewalling.
> Do I understand it correctly that unless this issue is addressed,
> switching a firewall/linuxconf config to 2.2.1 is not a wise move?
Yes, the firewall won't work at all.
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