[Techtalk] IPTables

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 05:28:19PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Jennifer Davis thought:
> 
> Up until now, I used IPchains for my NAT/Firewall.  When I tried
> to run my PMFirewall script, it wouldn't work for me.  I guess after 34
> months with the 2.4 kernel, Slack dropped support for IPChains.
> 
> I was wondering if there was a quick and easy way of setting up
> IPTables for Slackware.  Ideally it would install via the console as this
> machine does not do X.  Otherwise, is there a way to make my distro
> backwareds compatible? 

Raven Alder posted an iptables firewall script last December.  It's in the
archives in the thread "iptables help needed" dated 26-Dec-2003.  I
haven't got a link handy.  I used it for a server I set up but didn't
manage to get NAT working with it.  Not sure why and, when the server
became an X-terminal server, it wasn't necessary anyhow.

You're better off moving forwards since (as you new see) the older stuff
will become unsupported.

Conor (pontificating when he's still using ipchains...)
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