Re: IP Chains

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:03:25 -0700 "Marcus - Webpagescanada.com"
<marcus webpagescanada com> imparted to us:

> 	Is IP Chains installed on Red Hat Linux by default, is there a way of
> checking if it is on there. Anyone know of a good tutorial to install
> and
> adminster IP Chains? Is there anything better I could be using? Thanks
> in
> advance,

RH>=7.1 yes, RH<=7.0 no

To enable it on RH7.1 you need to rmmon ipchains and insmod ip_tables,
or run ntsysv (chkconfig if you prefer, or if you're into the zealotry
thing) and turn ipchains off/iptables on and reboot. Instead of reboot
(for those on servers and zealots) you can

service ipchains stop; service iptables start

AFTER the rmmod/insmod trick.

Tutorials are a little thin and I can't think of one right off. But, I
downloaded Bastille (and a whole group of dependencies, including some
Mandrake stuff) and set it up. It seems to be doing an accetable job for
the time being. You can also run 'setup' and choose the firewall thing
for high or medium, then run 'ipchains -L' to see the syntax of the
commands and what is already set up.

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