linux box troubles

[Jim]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Jeff wrote:

> In slack you'd just
>
> kill -1 <pid of inetd>
>
> this will restart your network.
>
> upgrading your kernel to a 2.4 one sounds like a good start.
>
> Here's the link to that HOWTO for setting up your firewall and what to compile into the kernel for 2.4.x
>
> http://www.e-infomax.com/ipmasq/
> http://www.e-infomax.com/ipmasq/ipmasq-howto.html

I'm using ipchains now.  The page you mentioned talks about iptables.
When I set this up will iptables use the same settings ipchains uses or
will I have to set up the firewall again?

Thanks