[ale] iptables...

[James P. Kinney III]

Yep! Use what works for you. Iptables is the replacememnt for ipchains.
Ipchains is going to be phased out over time. Iptables gives even finer
control and a better FORWARD handling mechanism than it's predassesor. I
couldn't get firewall MARK to work in ipchains, but I did in iptables. 
Of course, Rusty Russel pointed me to the patch and my code problem
(Thanks Rusty!).

On Thu, 2001-08-30 at 18:00, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, leonard wrote:
> 
> > Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Timothy Ball wrote:
> > >
> > > > I need to filter some ports on my laptop... I don't know iptables...
> > > > (i'm not a networking guy). I've tried looking at the docs, but again
> > > > I'm not a networking guy.
> > >
> > > Here's the script I use on my laptop when using ppp. If you're using modules,
> > > you'll need to load them prior to running. I just built them in the kernel...
> >
> > What is the advantage of IPtables over IPchains ?
> 
> For use on a laptop...not much. But there's certainly no disadvantage.
> Personally, if I'm gonna run the newest kernel...I don't see the point in using
> the previous release's firewalling code. I'm pretty nostalgic when it comes to
> hardware, but I could care less about software.
> 
> Overall comparison, I don't even know where to begin. Instead I'll just answer a
> question with a question...
> 
> What's the advantage of Checkpoint FW1 over ZoneAlarm ???
> 
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