IP firewalls

2003-01-04 Thread Caleb Walker
I am thinking about upgrading my firewall hardware soon and along with that I was thinking of installing Debian. It is running FreeBSD along with many other applications but my question is, can I use ipfw instead of iptables? I do not know how to use iptables or ipchains but I am very

Re: IP firewalls

2003-01-04 Thread nate
Caleb Walker said: I am thinking about upgrading my firewall hardware soon and along with that I was thinking of installing Debian. It is running FreeBSD along with many other applications but my question is, can I use ipfw instead of iptables? I do not know how to use iptables or ipchains

Re: IP firewalls

2003-01-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
One can use ipfwadm (or ipchains) in addition to iptables with 2.4.kernels: CONFIG_IP_NF_COMPAT_IPFWADM This option places ipfwadm (with masquerading and redirection support) back into the kernel, using the new netfilter infrastructure. It is not recommended for new installations (see