[olug] security and firewall/gateway

[Phil Brutsche]

On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 22:01, Mike Peterson wrote:
> Redhat 7.0 did not use the 2.4 kernel.

It didn't?

Shows what I know about RedHat, I'm a Debian user running a pair of
seriously hacked-up RedHat 6.x boxen :)

> Is iptables not part of 2.4 only.

No, iptables only works with 2.4 & higher.

> Redhat 7.1 includes the 2.4 kernel default but does not have iptables loaded
> in.

Ok

> It does support ipchains.

Yes it does.

> I will post how to do this when I get it working.

Gosh, it's been so long since I've run iptables modular...

Try these lines as root to start with:

rmmod ipchains
modprobe ip_conntrack
modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp
modprobe ip_tables

> Unless someone else knows the answer and would like to post a reply.

-- 

Phil


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