I have a desktop machine onto which I installed woody, which originally ran a 2.2.20 kernel and was configured using heimdall to use ipchains for firewalling. (There is a script /etc/heimdall/firewall.sh which invokes ipchains rules.) Awhile ago, I built a custom 2.4.18 kernel and have been running that. This machine uses a dial-up connexion to connect to my ISP, and I now want to allow access to the dial-up connexion via a local network to a laptop that I have just acquired pre-installed with sarge.
In trying to figure out what I have to do get this to work, I tried running ipchains -L on the desktop, and got the response: ipchains: Incompatible with this kernel (iptables is not installed, since I didn't want to screw up the 2.2.20 configuration.) This is strange. Looking at the options I used in building the 2.4.18 kernel, I see that under "IP: Netfilter configuration", I specified both IP tables and ipchains support as modules. Does this mean that since changing to a 2.4 kernel that I lost firewalling? There don't seem to be any error messages in the system log files relating to ipchains. So, how do I fix this? And how do I proceed to get the laptop to be able to access the internet thru the desktop? - Will -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
