ipchains or iptables

munisp · 12-05-2001, 12:28 PM

I am running redhat 7.1 with kernel 2.4.2 smp. How do I know which running on my server ipchains or iptables. How do I get I chains to and disable ipchains.? Do I have to reconfigure my kernel to get iptables to work?

thanks
Patrick

Aussie · 12-06-2001, 02:37 AM

Ipchains is the 2.2.x kernel implemtation and iptables is for 2.4.x series kernels, you should be able to find the info you need at Redhat.

sarmadys · 12-06-2001, 08:48 PM

Hello

You must use iptables.

ipchains is not compatible with kernel version 2.4 and higher. It will issue a warning on this if you try to use it.

iptables does everything you need with ipchains. (and very better, I used a single iptables instruction instead of 3 ipchains)

Mac

DavidPhillips · 12-06-2001, 10:29 PM

Either one will work

But you cannot run ipchains with iptables

Disable one of them

you can run setup

go into services and if it's not selected it will be off.

setup does the services for you in xinetd.d

unSpawn · 12-15-2001, 02:58 AM

...also please note ipchains is "combat proven" under high load and with any protocol it/kernel can support, whereas netfilter/iptables still has some alpha/beta/bug(/performance?) issues.

Cpare · 12-15-2001, 11:36 AM

I was never able to PPTP through my Linux router until I used IPTABLES. Perhaps it was just me, or I am getting more used to Linux, but IPTABLES "just worked"... My 2 Cents

DavidPhillips · 12-15-2001, 11:45 AM

for ipchains masquerading router to work you need

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
ipchains -A forward -i eth0 -j MASQ