yes...I'm getting there. Slowly but surely. There's a lot of good info
connected to the links that you provided in the one message. Probably
about 3 days worth of "s-l-o-w" reading if I want it to sink in
some. :) The iptables concept sounds pretty neat so far though. Not a lot
different than ipchains as a matter of fact.
--
Mark
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* Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth
* it's already too late...just make sure
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On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 9:24pm ,Alan Shoemaker spake passionately in a message:
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> > Alan,
> >
> > you know...I'm having a dickens of a time getting this kernel to compile
> > so that I can even use either iptables, or ipchains. For the life of me I
> > can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. How does one start the iptables, if
> > indeed it's even a service that "can" be started as one would start
> > ipchains when you boot the machine.
> >
> > --
> > Mark
> [snip]
>
> Mark....I've no idea. I know that ipchains is on the way out
> and that a new command will take/is taking its place, but I've
> not read up on the specifics. I was just giving you a
> starting place to read up on the subject, since you seem to
> need to do so. :-)
> --
> Alan
>
>
