Re: ipchains and 2.3.X

Paul Rusty Russell (Paul.Russell@rustcorp.com.au)
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:44:23 -0700


Linus, please apply doco patch.

In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.9908252221250.432-100000@wr5z.localdomain> you write:
> What did I ignore which told me the changes making incompatibilities
> between ipchains and the dev kernels? Is there a replacement, or will
> ipchains need to be updated? Thanks in advance.

You mean you didn't notice the new config option, and didn't read
Documentation/Changes?

--- linux-2.3/net/Config.in.~1~ Wed Aug 25 21:31:25 1999
+++ linux-2.3/net/Config.in Mon Aug 30 09:41:52 1999
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
bool 'Routing messages' CONFIG_RTNETLINK
tristate 'Netlink device emulation' CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV
fi
-bool 'Network packet filtering' CONFIG_NETFILTER
+bool 'Network packet filtering (replaces ipchains)' CONFIG_NETFILTER
if [ "$CONFIG_NETFILTER" = "y" ]; then
bool 'Network packet filtering debugging' CONFIG_NETFILTER_DEBUG
fi

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Hacking time.

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