I've never heard this. Is this personal opinion? iptables is much close to ipfilter which is 10X better then ipchains. * Glenn Holmer (gholmer@ameritech.net) [020210 11:56]: ->Karol Pietrzak wrote: ->> Perhaps the greatest reason would be security: most firewalls ->> should run the latest 2.2, not 2.4. -> ->Why is that? Is it felt that iptables is not as mature as ->ipchains, or is it a kernel issue? -> ->-- -> ======================================================= -> Glenn Holmer (gholmer@ameritech.net) -> ------------------------------------------------------- -> Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. -> (In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.) -> ------------------------------------------------------- -> -H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", 1926 -> ======================================================= -> -> -> ->-- ->To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com ->For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com ->Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the ->archives at http://lists.suse.com -> -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC