Re: Red Hat 7.2 and example firewall script

["Mike A. Harris" <mharris redhat com>]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Stephan André Schmidt wrote:

>Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 16:06:23 +0100
>From: Stephan André Schmidt <stephanandre schmidt uni-bielefeld de>
>To: enigma-list redhat com
>Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1
>List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 7.2 (Enigma)  <enigma-list.redhat.com>
>Subject: Red Hat 7.2 and example firewall script
>
>Hello,
>
>I have been using the example firewall script (modified a bit to suite my 
>needs) from 
>http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/tips/firewall/firewallservice.html 
>from 6.2 to 7.1. Now, under 7.2, it seems that this ipchains based script 
>does not work anymore. I have turned on the ipchains compatibility mode in 
>the kernel sources but doing a '/etc/init.d/firewallss start/status/stop' 
>does not give me any output. Does 7.2 not support ipchains based scripts 
>anymore?

You have to load the ipchains kernel module via modprobe before 
using ipchains.

In 7.1, due to a bug, the ipchains module got loaded by accident 
automatically.


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