hi ya andrew On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> I'd like to upgrade my home machine's kernel to 2.4.18, but I'm not too > excited about moving from ipchains to iptables. (This machine acts as a > router from the home network [on eth0] and our DSL service [eth1].) So, a > few questions: > > - How easy or hard is it to migrate an ipchains ruleset to iptables? trivial to run ipchains under 2.4.18... - just enable the ipchains compatability - boot 2.4.18 in single user.. - insmod ipchains ( see if it works )... else make/compile a kernel that supports ipchains CONFIG_IP_NF_COMPAT_IPCHAINS=y > - Is it possible/adviseable to use ipchains under 2.4.18? depends... what is ipchains doing... > - What documentation should I read? ( different docs for different answers/problems ?? ) ipchains and other related HOWTOs for starters?? have fun alvin http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Firewall/ .. firewall fun ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]