Subject: Re: where to do iptables setup? Date: Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:41:57AM -0500
In reply to:will trillich Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:37:50AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > Subject: Re: where to do iptables setup? > > Date: Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 02:28:51PM +0530 > > > > In reply to:Raghavendra Bhat > > > > Quoting Raghavendra Bhat([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > [Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:08:37PM -0500] will : > > > > > > > apt-get install ipmasq > > > > > > > > unless i've missed something? > > > > > > Vineet should get a dependency error now. You > > > have missed 'iptables'. > > > > > > Is my thought process patently wrong ? 'ipmasq' is > > > a package which depends on the basic package > > > 'iptables | ipchains'. > > > > > > > No, your right, Will has his mind on Newbie things, that all. > > my reputation exceeds me, i can see that. :) > > on my potato setup it looks for ipchains and if it can't find > it, then it falls back to ipfwadm. i presume that the woody > incarnation looks for iptables and then falls back to ipchains, > right? so whichever firewall rule-munger you've got installed, > ipmasq will use the most advanced one. > > based on what i know. > Will The question was 'where to do iptables setup'. Iptables is the next step, beyond ipchains. (iptbles != ipchains). My potato setup 'used' to look for ipchains until I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.x and then went to the improved iptables. I am glad that I am not the only one who reads one thing and writes about something else. On another list yesterday, I answered an ipchains question with an iptables answer. :-( Offtopic: On that sig you have to remove the ^M. I am too lazy I guess. I use the dos2linux or unix2dos programs. Your newbie tip, for me, is way too much for this senior citizen to remember. Cheers buddy.... :-) Wayne -- My software never has bugs. It just develops random features. _______________________________________________________