Hi Lora, Thanks for your information. Philip On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Woodworth, Lora wrote: > Please correct me if I am wrong, but ipchains and iptables are not just in > RedHat this was changed in the Linux Kernel. > > 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. > > Hope this helps > Lora Woodworth > Secure Website Architect > CTA Inc. > lora.woodworth@cta.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Philip Ching (605.734.71) [mailto:pching@aplcenMP.apl.jhu.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 3:50 PM > To: security-discuss@linuxsecurity.com > Cc: Philip Ching (605.734.71) > Subject: Difference in ipchains and iptable > > > > Hi All, > > Why RedHat Linux changed from "ipchains" to "iptable"? > > What is their differences? Where can I read more about it? > > Would some body tell me? Thank you! > > Philip > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message.
