Re: Why is redhat 7.3 running ipchains as default and not iptables

[Jack Bowling <jbinpg shaw ca>]

** Reply to message from Mike Burger <mburger bubbanfriends org> on Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:51:41 -0500 (EST)


> service ipchains stop
> chkconfig ipchains off
> rmmod ipchains
> insmod iptables
> service iptables start
> chkconfig iptables on
> 
> After that, it's just a matter of putting together a decently configured 
> set of firewall rules.

I disagree here. #1 thing to do is to first get yourself an iptables script that you can understand and are happy with. *THEN* and only then can you do the steps that Mike has detailed above. 

jb