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Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
| Teemu Torma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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|>On a scratch 8.2 install on a firewall box, I noticed that
|>ipchains were installed by default, thus taking over packet
|>filtering functions. Shouldn't that be there just for backwards
|>compatibility reasons, so that in new installations iptables
|>would be the default?
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| It was done so that you could choose to boot on 2.2 or 2.4, but
| normally ipchains would not "take over" blindly with 2.4
| kernels..
|

So should it not just be a requires of kernel2.2?

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