Re: IPCHAINS/IPTABLES

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:33:49 -0700
"Mugleston, Brad" <brad mugleston gwl com> quietly intimated:

> I did it - I blew away IPCHAINS just to see what would happen - there
> were two programs that had dependencies on IPCHAINS being there -
> lokkit and firewall config.  It seems to be working OK but I ran out
> of time to play with it much.
> 
> Anyone know why lokkit and firewall config would use chains - I
> believe these are new programs that came out with the 7.2 version.
> 
> Brad

Those were actually there before that. I'm thinking 7.0, though I can't
remember exactly. They're definitely in 7.1 because I have it installed
and have both (and use neither now that I have an external firewall).
I'm guessing that they depend on ipchains because they were written to
use it. I doubt either can do iptables, though I could be mistaken. If
ipchains is uninstalled, they're useless. Another tool would be more
useful, say Bastille or something similar.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Rick Stevens [SMTP:rstevens vitalstream com]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, March 27, 2002 4:57 PM
> > To:	redhat-install-list redhat com
> > Subject:	Re: IPCHAINS/IPTABLES
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > > 
> 
> 
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