uniken wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I have a debian firewall box set up which I am using 2.2.14 kernel and > ipchains for firewalling and masquerading. Everything is working fine, but > now I want to set up ipchains. When I run ipacset, I get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ipacset > /usr/sbin/ipacset: cant read "/proc/net/ip_acct" - exit
ipacset is part of ipac package (ip accounting, `dpkg -S ipacset') you don't need ipacset, just `man ipchains' and may god help you. > and there is indeed no /proc/net/ip_acct. I presume this means that I need > IP Accounting compiled into my kernel. However I can't find this option when > I run make menuconfig. Most of the documentation with ipac mentions ipfw > instead of ipchains. Does this mean that IP accounting is unavailable with > 2.2 series kernels using ipchains? Anyone using any other package for > accounting if this is true? Well, I am sure it works, because I use it. the only reason I can think up is missing /proc, but this most probably is not the case. >From `man ipacset': ipacset reads config-file of, if omited, the file /etc/ipac.conf and sets kernel ip accounting rules by calling the appropriate control tool. The tools is ipfwadm(8) if you user linux kernel version 2.0.* or ipchains(8) if you have linux 2.1.* or 2.2.* Really hope that this helps. If not, just wait some time and some more knowledgeble than me will jump in :) -- Damyan
