[ale] Ipchain/IpTable

[Ryan]

Could someone repost Bob Toxen's slides? I missed the talk also :(

> 
> On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 16:31, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > There are some big syntax differences between the two version. Also,
> > there was an ALE meeting (that I missed :(  ) where Bob Toxen discussed
> > the differences and, ultimately, why ipchains is, in several repsects, a
> > better solution that iptables. I believe there was a posting of the talk
> > slides on the ALE list. 
> > 
> > I have used iptables since it was early. There was a specific feature
> > that I needed (a WORKING packet marking process) that ipchains just
> > couldn't do at that time.
> > 
> > But for a basic "deny all but let in a few ports we like" firewall, both
> > systems will be just fine. It's not until you want to tinker with the
> > esoterica of packet mangling and logging and user-space packet access,
> > then you will need a more in-depth look at the differences. On that
> > note, I would point out that Rusty Russel, author of both ipchains and
> > iptables, has announced that iptables is the "official" process now.
> > Ipchains is in maintenance mode, so no new features.
> > 
> > On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 14:14, David Corbin wrote:
> > > I have a linux firewall/router that's been running the 2.2 family of 
> > > kernels for a long time.  For other reasons, I'm upgrading to 2.4.  It 
> > > appears that 2.4 supports ipchains OR iptables.  My question is, what's 
> > > the benefit to using iptable over ipchains?  Why should I convert?
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > David
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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