Upgrade from RH 6.2 to what... 7.3?

bulliver · 12-18-2002, 06:07 PM

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By default it appears Redhat 7.x has ipchains, and Redhat 8 does away with chains, and gives you tables

Actually, RH8 had both installed and running??!?!? by default.

SlickWilly · 12-19-2002, 09:17 AM

Installed perhaps... Running no.

It's simply not possible - the kernel hooks required will conflict with one another. Which is why you get the nasty error messages about your kernel needing upgrading if you try to run iptables while you have ipchains up - iptables is trying to hook up, and being denied because ipchains already has a hook there - so it thinks your kernel isn't capable.

Slick.

bulliver · 12-19-2002, 10:06 AM

Be that as it may, both iptables and ipchains were selected to begin at boot time as services. This is what lead to my confusion as to whether ipchains was needed, and why I posted my question in the security forum. If ipchains was not running, then why start at boot time?

browny_amiga · 12-23-2002, 04:54 AM

Well, I got it all now:

Ipchains is deactivated (even deinstalled), iptables is running and the ruleset was setup by a tool called FIRESTARTER, which I can recommend warmly to anybody that wants to setup a customized firewall.
It even has a frontend where it shows hits that the firewall takes.
Great tool and iptables just makes a better impression in functionality than ipchains.

Thanks for helping me get there... ;-)

Markus