If you have a 2.4 kernel, ipchains is obsolete -- iptables is much
easier to understand in my opinion, anyway.
on Thursday 09/11/2003 coco the talking chimp([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> ipchains not installed by default? I thought Linux was made for networking.
> Anyway, I'm not too familiar with this but here is my problem. When I run ipchains
> it says incompatible with this kernel. I'm on compact debian 3.0 so kernel must be
> 2.2.2.0. Modprobe ipchains says no such module. Downloaded ipchains source.
> README says kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL or
> CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_CHAINS set to 'y'. Verify by checking for the existence of
> /proc/net/ip_fwchains. I checked and no such file exists. Is this a simple matter
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> Linux was made for networking. Anyway, I'm not too familiar with this but
> here is my problem. When I run ipchains it says incompatible with this
> kernel. I'm on compact debian 3.0 so kernel must be 2.2.2.0. Modprobe
> ipchains says no such module. Downloaded ipchains source. README
> says kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL or
> CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_CHAINS set to 'y'. Verify by checking for the existence
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