Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:52:04 +0100 | | From | James Courtier-Dutton <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away. |
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Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Rusty Russell wrote: > > >>On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 22:36, Marc Ballarin wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:09:02 +1000 >>>"Rusty Russell (IBM)" <rusty@au1.ibm.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Name: Warn that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away >>>>Status: Trivial >>>>Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> >>> > What replaces the firewall stuff? It can't just "go away"! > > Cheers, > Dick Johnson
ipchains and ipfwadm are very old firewall implementations. The current linux firewall code is called "iptables" and that has been present for a long time time, and that is staying.
So, the linux kernel still has firewall features, even with ipchains and ipfwadm removed.
James
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