ipchains yet again

[Rui Alves]

Hello,

I'm running mandrake linux 8.2 and I want to use ipchains. The program is installed but I cannot use it.

For example if I write something like ipchains -P forward DENY, I get ipchains: Protocol not available.

In the ipcahins HOW-TO you can read:

You need a kernel which has the new IP firewall chains in it. You can tell if the kernel you are running right now has this installed by looking for the file `/proc/net/ip_fwchains'. If it exists, you're

but I have no /proc/net/ip_fwchains file. So this means I have to recompile the kernel or something? :confused: I ask because this program is so common that I find it unlikely that I would not have mandrake ready to run it...

Well I'm probably doing something wrong. Can anyone help me out with this?

Thanks

[X_console]

I don't use Mandrake, but perhaps it uses the new iptables by default instead of ipchains.

[Rui Alves]

You are not only right, you're very right! Thanks :D

Anyone knows of any iptables configuration tool like you have PMFirewall (http://freshmeat.net/projects/pmfirewall/?highlight=pmfirewall&topic_id=151) for ipchains?