Most default kernels do not have the firewall options enabled.  Your best bet is
to download the latest 2.2.x kernel from www.kernel.org (or Suse's website) and
configure/compile that kernel with the firewall options enabled.  Then make sure
that ipchains is installed, it is a seperate package from the kernel and should
be on your Suse cd's or, again, download it from the web.  In Redhat the
ipchains binary is in the /sbin directory.  Don't know where the rest of it goes
as I use RPM to install most packages.

> I'm using kernel 2.2.10 and SuSE 6.2 distribution.
> When I run Kfirewall an error pops up and says it can't find the ipchains.
> The manual says the ipchains  should be in there somewhere under /proc/net/
> something?
> I don't have a /proc/net directory let alone the something.  So the ipchains
> aren't configured in the kernel according to the literature.
> 
> So I read and read and have no clue on how to get the ipchain-1.3.9.zippity
> do dah.gz file to do anything let alone jump over into the kernel.
> 
> What to do?   1) download a new kernel?
>                          2) insert some ipchains in the existing kernel.
> 
>  I checked & have config_ipchains marked "Y"  or enabled when using:   make
> xconfig    (in kde).    I actually compiled a new kernel it worked.  My
> sound still doesn't  but at least the box boots.
> 
> To install - it more or less says to type:  install ipchains ipchains.8
>                                                                 @-mv
> ipchains ipchains.old
>                                                                   blah,
> blah,blah!
> Where or under what directory should you put these ipchain-1.3.9.zippity do
> dah.gz   files?  proc/net/ipchains?
> I guess I'm too used to MS multiple guess user interface.  : )

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