Yeah I think its better. The xconfig screen under network, then netfilter options has
an option to include iptables that uses the new netfilter screen. Unfortunately its
greyed out and I cannot figure out what will enable it.
Thanks,
Jon
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On 11/9/00 at 12:33 AM Mark Weaver wrote:
>Jon,
>
>To my knowledge you can't compile 2.4 with ipchains support. I've tried a
>few times and stopped trying. This kernel employs a new type of filtering
>called "iptables" instead of ipchains. I've heard that it's a better type
>of packet filtering although I haven't yet started to figure out how it
>works. (other more pressing problems at the moment) There does seem to be
>quite a bit of documentation on the net about iptables though.
>
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>Surprisingly on Tue, 7 Nov 2000 Jon Greisz had this to say!
>
>> I'm using pmFirewall which uses ipchains. I want to switch to 2.4, but cannot
>figure out how to get it to work with ipchains. When I do a make xconfig, within the
>netfilter section there is a ipchains 2.2 section at the very bottom, but it is
>greyed out. How can I compile a 2.4 kernel with ipchains support.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jon Greisz
>>
>>
>>
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