On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 11:15:26AM -0700, Max wrote: > You (Stephen J. Carpenter) wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Max wrote: > > > Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP > > > accounting with the development kernel (2.1.121)? /proc/net/ip_acct > > > doesn't exist and programs such as ipacset and ipfwadm complain about > > > it. What's going on? Do I need to enable IP firewalling in the > > > kernel? If so, that option is greyed out and I have no idea how to > > > ungrey it so that I can enable it. > > > > ipfwadm doesn't work. 2.1.x kernels (later than 98 I think...I am not sure > > since when) use a completely differnt way of working. > > > > The new command is ipchains and is completely differnt... > > for a quick and easy cheat... there is ipfwadm-wrapper > > heres the manpage snippit: > > DESCRIPTION > > Ipfwadm-wrapper emulates the behaviour of ipfwadm. You can > > use this wrapper to use your old ipfwadm firewall rules > > with ipchains. See ipfwadm(8) for more details. > > > > both are found on my debian system as part of netbase > > Thanks for your help, but it looks like I still need to enable IP > firewalling in the kernel because I get the following message with > ipfwadm-wrapper: > > Generic IP Firewall Chains not in this kernel > > ipchains -L reports: > > ipchains: cannot open file `/proc/net/ip_fwnames' > > The question is how to enable firewalls when that option is greyed out > in the kernel configuration menu. Any clues?
hmm is IP forwardign on? firewalling is kinda useless without forwarding...somtimes another option turns it on...hmmm I dunno I am using 2.1.120...havn't tried 2.1.121 yet... -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"