ipchains and iptables are mutually exclusive. ipchains is older technology. iptables is supposed to be a big improvement but I use ipchains because I know how to use it and they work for my needs.
The biggest advantage I know about for iptables is it allows much greater flexibility in controlling access to different ports. For example, with iptables you can control access to a port depending on the time of day. There is nothing in ipchains that allows that. With ipchains, you would have to write a fancy script called by hosts.allow to get that kind of flexibility. I would learn iptables. Joel On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:16:20PM +0800, Alex Le Dain wrote: > On 7/10/2002 11:26 AM, Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am fairly certain RH 7.1 out of the box blocks port 139. > >You will have to learn how to open up your ports to let samba work. > >I don't > >use RH anymore, but you may have either iptables or ipchains on your > >system. > > Thanks Joel, > > If I can bother you once more, can I have a quick pointer as to the difference >between ipchains and iptables? Can/do both exist? > > cheers, Alex. > > -- > Alexander C. Le Dain, PhD > Manager of Programming > ICON Technologies Pty Ltd > www.icon-tech.com.au > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
