I setup sharing my internet connection under Mandrake Control Center on
MDK 8. It installed ipchains, iptables, and iproute2? Are all these
programs used for the internet sharing or does it install some of these
for a just in case senerio? What are they all supposed to do?
Thanks,
Kevin
iproute2 is the way for kernel 2.4.x to handle IP source routing. (See docs
at http://www.linuxgrill.com/iproute2-toc.html for information)
ipchains and iptables are roughly equivalent to one another in that they
both have the same end result -- configuring a firewall. ipchains is the
