Re: IPCHAINS/IPTABLES

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Hacksaw wrote:
> > To my surprise both IPCHAINS and IPTABLES was installed - are both needed?
> > I thought IPTABLES was a 7.2 thing and IPCHAINS was being replaced by
> > tables.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if when you looked at the ipchains stuff, it was 
> expressed in term of iptables calls. It's supposed to be a compatibility layer 
> for people like me who are upgrading a box with a 2.2.x kernel and who need 
> the box to work a.s.a.p. after the upgrade.

Yup.  However, ipchains still shows up as a loadable module, so you
can still use it.  Dumb, but you can.

> All hail backward compatibility with forward movement!

"Yesterday, there will be a seminar on time travel.  For those who
missed it, it will be replayed in the Renaissance."
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