I have been 'roughly' following this link, but i do have questions that hopefully someone can help me out with. (the Oskar Andreasson Tutorial) http://www.linuxsecurity.com/resource_files/firewalls/IPTables-Tutorial/iptables-tutorial/iptables-tutorial.html#INSTALL_RH71
ok, these are the sequential steps i followed and i'm not having any sucess. -I downloaded iptables-1.2.5 from netfilter. (to my internet downloads partition) -I unpacked with bzip2 -cd iptables-1.2.5.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf - -I made the package: make KERNEL_DIR=/boot/vmlinux and make install KERNEL_DIR=/boot/vmlinux -i made sure ipchains was off. chkconfig --level 0123456 ipchains off -i made sure the service was stopped. (which doesn't really matter because 'ipchains' is not compitible with my kernel so it won't work anyway.) service ipchains stop -i ran 'modprobe ip_tables' and 'modprobe iptable_nat' to test the initial iptables-1.2.5 installation and 'lsmod' to see the modules were loaded, they seem to be there. Now to make iptables run i tried: chkconfig --level 235 iptables on -which produced 'iptables not found'? -so of course i could not start it as well: service iptables start :'iptables not found' -Now, does this just mean that iptables is not in my 'path'. I though when i 'make' a package is it automatically made in /sbin or where is 'should' be made, is this true? i don't really want it (ipchains) to reside where it currently is, where i 'unpacked it', on my 'internet downloads' partition. >From what i understand my kernel is already compiled to run 'iptables', i run Yellow >dog Linux 2.1 kernel 2.4.10-12a - but if not i have never compilied a kernel and i >would rather save some fun for later ;-) (i've only been running linux a short time >but i have a cable provider and really need a decent firewall - hence iptables) thanks in advance for all your help. -ralph _____________________________________________________________ Get your spam-free, Linux email now --> http://www.LinuxWaves.com Join Linux discussions --> http://Community.LinuxWaves.com _____________________________________________________________ Run a small business? Then you need professional email like [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Everyone.net http://www.everyone.net?tag
