Re: ipchains

[Kevin Myers <km gcom co th>]

On Thu, 30 May 2002 08:03:43 -0400 (EDT), rday wrote:

>not sure if this is an issue or not, but the "lokkit" and
>"gnome-lokkit" utilities in red hat 7.3 appear to configure
>ipchains, when i'm assuming most folks will be using
>iptables.  this might give users a false sense of security
>after the configuration when, in fact, they really haven't
>locked down anything.
>
>or am i missing something?

I think it's worse than that, I suspect that if you run lokkit when iptables
is configured there's a good chance that it will succeed in configuring
ipchains, which will in turn stop iptables from starting again.

Or am I missing something?