Re: IPCHAINS/IPTABLES

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Mugleston, Brad wrote:
> I guess my only thought was if  some program wanted to use ipchains to set
> something up and I was really using tables it would at least complain that
> chains wasn't there rather than set up chains and not work.

AFAIK, iptables will accept ipchains-format commands.  It shouldn't
prevent you from using iptables.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Rick Stevens [SMTP:rstevens vitalstream com]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, March 27, 2002 3:04 PM
> > To:	redhat-install-list redhat com
> > Subject:	Re: IPCHAINS/IPTABLES
> >
> > Mugleston, Brad wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
> > The ipchains module isn't that big (~50K).  Why remove it?  If you
> > aren't using it, you can remove it from the startup (e.g. go to
> > /etc/rc.d/rcX.d and remove the S08ipchains link).
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