Hi all,

what exactly are the main differences between IPChains and IPTables ?

ask google 4: difference ipchains iptables snip ------ Message-ID: <EB5EB93D190ED31180430008C7F3714DB4A503@COSEXCH> From: "Woodworth, Lora" <Lora.Woodworth@cta.com> To: "'security-discuss@linuxsecurity.com'" <security-discuss@linuxsecurity.com> Subject: RE: Difference in ipchains and iptable Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:32:35 -0700 In short and in general iptables is in the 2.4 Kernel and will allow you to build a stateful firewall. ipchains was in 2.2 Kernel and gives you a stateless firewall. There is a good article about building an iptables based firewall at: http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2001/0920.ipchains.html Also if you want more information do a search at: http://www.linuxsecurity.com and it has quite a few links. ------ snap Yours Michael Appeldorn