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Henrique Pantarotto (scanner@cepa.com.br)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:42:38 -0200

At 18:53 26/01/99 -0200, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
>What's the difference between ipfwadm and ipchains? Don't they all
>simply manipulate kernel parameters or something like that? Is there any
>advantage of using one instead of other? My kernel is 2.0.36.

Hello Juan!

They do the same thing (they are both firewalls). I'm not an expert, but
people tell that ipchains in much better. Besides that, ipfwadm will no
longer work with newer kernels, so you *must* start using ipchains sooner
or later.

For ipchains to work, you need to apply a patch to your 2.0.36 kernel
source tree. Newer kernels comes with ipchains for you.

Hope I helped you a little.

Regards from Brazil,

Henrique Pantarotto
Coord. Técnico Operacional
CEPAnet Internet Provider
Web: http://www.cepa.com.br
Tel. suporte: (011) 5506-8477
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