Re: [TCLUG:11089] IPCHAINS and Netfilter

[Bradley Wendelboe <krakken@ncn.net>]

Yaron wrote:
> 
>   Hi,
> 
> Well, I decided to try buinding a 2.3.* kernel, just so I'll know what to
> be prepared for when 2.4 comes out.
> 
> It looks fine, except they seem to have moved from IPCHAINS to Netfilter,
> which means my firewall/ipmasq won't work anymore.
> 
> I looked at the demo scripts for netfilter, but they are so tangled up, I
> can't make heads or tails of it. I was wondring ifnayone knows of a simple
> netfilter script that does nothing but ipmasq (I don't really firewall
> anything), or something that'll 'translate' from IPCHAINS?

In compat/ you'll find ipchains.o.  Just copy this to the
/lib/modules/<kernelversion/net.  Its a backwards compatable module that
works fine for ipchains.

Krakken

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