RE: IPCHAINS/IPTABLES

["Mugleston, Brad" <brad mugleston gwl com>]

Can I remove the IPCHAINS from the harddrive and be OK or do you think there
may be some programs looking for Chains in this distro?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Rick Stevens [SMTP:rstevens vitalstream com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 27, 2002 1:42 PM
> To:	redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject:	Re: IPCHAINS/IPTABLES
> 
> 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!
> 
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