[olug] security and firewall/gateway

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> iptables and ipchains cannot be run at the same time correct?
> one or the other must be running in the kernel and only one.

This is correct.

> Is there a threshold at which you need to switch from ipchains to iptables?
> Is it above or below 25 clients sharing the same gateway?

The number of clients behind the firewall is totally irrevelant.

ipchains can handle a very large number of clients just as easily as
iptables.

If you're using the 2.4 kernel you *really* *really* should be using
iptables - ipchains works with 2.4 but is provided for *only* for
backwards compatibility with 2.2 kernels.

Don't expect ipchains to be around beyond 2.4.


Phil


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