"Andy Zbikowski (Zibby)" <zibby at ringworld.org> writes: > On 4 Jun 2001, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > > But after the upgrade, I see I have an "ipchains" rpm installed, but > > no iptables. And when I run /sbin/ipchains, it tells me it's not > > compatible with this kernel (7.1 is a 2.4 kernel, I was previously > > running a 2.2). Now, I see the iptables rpm, and I could install > > that, but what the heck kind of an "upgrade" process is this anyway? > > Sounds like you only upgraded the packages you had installed to the > versions in 7.1, or missed some important packages along the way. Your > ipchains problem is a 2.2 to 2.4 issue. ipchains was replaced with > netfilter in 2.4 (iptables.) ipchains and the older ipfwadm are still > available, but only as modules. So before using ipchains, you have to > modprobe ipchains. Add it to your firewall script (or ipchains init > script) and you should be set. Well, I didn't customize the list of packages to upgrade, so it's their fault :-). I suppose I won't get much sympathy here for getting scrod by RedHat. Yes, manually probing for ipchains works. Thanks! -- David Dyer-Bennet / Welcome to the future! / dd-b at dd-b.net SF: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/ Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/