Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

[Ben Rosenberg <ben@xxxxxxxxx>]

* Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO (ruben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [010423 22:15]:
=>> The suse firewall package does not use iptables, it uses ipchains, which
=>> is a kerenl 2.2 feature. The kernel 2.4 has backwards compatibility with
=>> 2.2's ipchains via a module.
=>
=>
=>I tried my old firewall script and it says 
=>root@www2:/home/ruben/docs > ./firewall.txt 
=>ipchains: setting MASQ timeouts failed: Protocol not available
=>ipchains: Protocol not available
=>ipchains: Protocol not available

I had issues with iptables..and I was quite happy with my old firewall
scripts..so I just load the ipchains module via boot.local and it works.
It may not be the clean way to do it..but it works.

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