Kernel 2.4.* use iptables. The man page has tons of useful info in it.

Can't offer much help on the transition of your existing ipchains
knowledge since I haven't mastered the transition myself...


Bart



On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 12:39, Dvmcaferty@aol.com wrote:
> Hello PLUG,
> I am setting up a red hat 8 linux box and am having problems setting up
> a firewall.
> The ipchains and ipfwadm commands don't work with error messages:
> 
> # ipchains -L
> ipchains: Incompatible with this kernel
> 
> # ipchains -M -L
> ipchains: cannot open file `/proc/net/ip_masquerade'
> 
> 
> # /sbin/ipfwadm
> Generic IP Firewall Chains not in this kernel
> 
> It seems I must do something with the kernel (which is 2.4). Also I cannot create a ip_masquerade file (read only permissions on directories)
> 
> Can anyone send me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
> 
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