Re: [cobalt-security] ipchains info

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> I think development on ipchains pretty much stopped about two years
> ago, the functionality was replaced by iptables in the 2.4 kernel
> series.  Not sure about Sun/Cobalt, but most of the rest of the
> Linux community has abandoned ipchains.  That's why the
> documentation on the net is so old.

iptables is used on the 550, which has a 2.4 kernel.  It's also on the 
LX50.

All other products have a 2.2 kernel, so they _have_ to use ipchains 
if they're going to use anything.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html
http://www.netfilter.org/ipchains/
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-security/2001-July/002935.html
http://www.raqpak.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=4

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Bruce Timberlake

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