Henrique Pantarotto wrote:
>
> At 18:53 26/01/99 -0200, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
> >What's the difference between ipfwadm and ipchains? Don't they all
> >simply manipulate kernel parameters or something like that? Is there any
> >advantage of using one instead of other? My kernel is 2.0.36.
>
> Hello Juan!
>
> They do the same thing (they are both firewalls). I'm not an expert, but
> people tell that ipchains in much better. Besides that, ipfwadm will no
> longer work with newer kernels, so you *must* start using ipchains sooner
> or later.
>
> For ipchains to work, you need to apply a patch to your 2.0.36 kernel
> source tree. Newer kernels comes with ipchains for you.
Ok, now I know I can stick with ipfwadm while I'm using 2.0.36 (thanks
to all who took the trouble to help!), but I'd like to experiment with
ipchains right now. Where can I find the aforementioned patch?
[]'s,
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