Yeah I think its better. The xconfig screen under network, then netfilter options has
an option to include iptables that uses the new netfilter screen. Unfortunately its
greyed out and I cannot figure out what will enable it.
Thanks,
Jon
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On 11/9/00
I'm using pmFirewall which uses ipchains. I want to switch to 2.4, but cannot figure
out how to get it to work with ipchains. When I do a make xconfig, within the
netfilter section there is a ipchains 2.2 section at the very bottom, but it is greyed
out. How can I compile a 2.4 kernel with
Jon,
To my knowledge you can't compile 2.4 with ipchains support. I've tried a
few times and stopped trying. This kernel employs a new type of filtering
called "iptables" instead of ipchains. I've heard that it's a better type
of packet filtering although I haven't yet started to figure out how
