Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO wrote:
The firewall is not working. Actually ...i'd love to compile the
What kernel are you running? The suse one or one you compiled yourself?
www2 2.4.0-4GB #1 Wed Jan 24 15:55:09 GMT 2001 i686 unknown
The configuration options necessary to support iptables with compatibility for 2.2.x may be your problem.
I can't find tools or docs for the new iptools
I think there is an rpm in suse 7.0 to use iptools, look for iptables.rpm in the sec1 directory of your suse cd's. Never used it, though. Just to make sure, we are talking about the SuSEfirewals script as a means to do 'firewalling'.
I don't understand them so I just copied the options used in the suse kernel builds. I can send you my .config for my 2.4.3 kernel if you want. My firewall works fine, I think, I have to go back to that web site and run another test.
What - from the .config file? That's the file for kernel compilation?
Were talking firewalls or compiling ;)
I'm confused....
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 didn't have problems when I was running suse 7.0, can you describe what problems you are having under 2.4? "doesn't work" doesn't mean anything. -- Rafael