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.
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.