--- Goh Huade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> What is IP chain?
> How is it been used?
>
IPChains is a utility used in linux to accept, deny,
forward, drop, masquerade, eat, and drink tcp packets.
Well it's basically just used for masquerading and
firewalling but if your using Mandrake 8 then you
would want to look into iptables instead. They both
have decent man pages ("man ipchains" and "man
iptables") but gruesome at first glance. If you want
to build a firewall there are many good graphical
util's out there that will make your life alot easier.
Learning these util's is nice if you want to know how
each and every packet that comes in and goes out of
your machine will be treated, but it takes some
patience. They both also have howto's wich I dont
have the url at my fingertips now, but they should be
on www.linuxdocs.org
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