On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 11:46:18 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > Björn Persson wrote: > > > Paul Dubinsky wrote: > > > >> Whenever I run "service ipchains status", Fedora reports "ipchains > >> not compatible with this kernel". Is this true? Iptables works fine > >> and Ipchains seems to start. I'm confused. > > > > I read somewhere that you can't use both IPtables and IPchains at the > > same time. And I see no reason why anyone would want to. > > AFAIK ipchains runs user-mode. Iptables runs kernel-mode and is preferred. Ipchains is from Linux kernel 2.2 times. In the 2.4 kernel series it is only a restricted compatibility layer on top of the new netfilter (iptables) architecture. It doesn't offer everything ipchains in the 2.2 kernels offered. > I understand that in the 2.6 kernel ipchains will NOT be supported, and > it has been deprecated since the 2.4 kernel came out. > > It is possible that ipchains is not even supported in FC1, but I have > not tested that since I already use iptables. Well, the ipchains user-space tools package is available. --
