You (Stephen J. Carpenter) wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 11:15:26AM -0700, Max wrote:
> > You (Stephen J. Carpenter) wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Max wrote:
> > > > Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP
> > > > accounting with the development kernel (2.1.121)? /proc/net/ip_acct
> > > > doesn't exist and programs such as ipacset and ipfwadm complain about
> > > > it. What's going on? Do I need to enable IP firewalling in the
> > > > kernel? If so, that option is greyed out and I have no idea how to
> > > > ungrey it so that I can enable it.
> > >
> > > ipfwadm doesn't work. 2.1.x kernels (later than 98 I think...I am not
> > > sure
> > > since when) use a completely differnt way of working.
> > >
> > > The new command is ipchains and is completely differnt...
> > > for a quick and easy cheat... there is ipfwadm-wrapper
> > > heres the manpage snippit:
> > > DESCRIPTION
> > > Ipfwadm-wrapper emulates the behaviour of ipfwadm. You can
> > > use this wrapper to use your old ipfwadm firewall rules
> > > with ipchains. See ipfwadm(8) for more details.
> > >
> > > both are found on my debian system as part of netbase
> >
> > Thanks for your help, but it looks like I still need to enable IP
> > firewalling in the kernel because I get the following message with
> > ipfwadm-wrapper:
> >
> > Generic IP Firewall Chains not in this kernel
> >
> > ipchains -L reports:
> >
> > ipchains: cannot open file `/proc/net/ip_fwnames'
> >
> > The question is how to enable firewalls when that option is greyed out
> > in the kernel configuration menu. Any clues?
>
> hmm is IP forwardign on? firewalling is kinda useless without
> forwarding...somtimes another option turns it on...hmmm
Actually, the problem was that there was another option called
"Network firewalls" that has to be turned on BEFORE firewalling can be
turned on with another option. Kind of confusing if you ask me, but
that's the way it is. Still, it doesn't look like wmnet can use the
new /proc filesystem format.
Max
--
In the darkness...
I was stumbling for the door
To find a reason
To find the time, the place, the hour
Bruce Dickinson, 1994
