linux box troubles

[Jeff]

the 2.4.14 kernel supports the old ipchains and the port forwarding methods as well as the new netfilter Iptables.

It's really easy to set up.  Download compile and install the new iptables version, then do your kernel.  It has the options in there for all of it.

You may need to make up a good rc.firewall script, but I just used the 0.62 version that was listed in that howto.  It works great.

I never used ipchains so I'm not too sure on what you'd need to do, I just know that setting it up from scratch was very simple.  Took about an hour total.  not including compile time for the kernel.


At 03:44 PM 11/15/2001, you wrote:
>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
>
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