[TriLUG] iptables vs. ipchains

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Sep 4 15:29:33 EDT 2002


On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 15:15, Jason Tower wrote:
> good presentation tom.  it's worth noting that the in latest red hat
> "null" beta, if you choose to enable a firewall during the installation
> process, the resulting setup uses iptables by default instead of ipchains.

I pointed that out last night (didn't you hear me? ;) and it was also
mentioned that doing a logrotate on the /var/log/iptables log file is a
very very good idea.

Just afterthoughts,

~spot 
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