Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away.

[James Courtier-Dutton]

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@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Name: Warn that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away
> > > > Status: Trivial
> > > > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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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