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

[Fao, Sean]

Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> I guess I'll have to convert 1340 lines of ipchains commands to
> iptables -yech!
>
> I had convert something to ipchains a couple of years ago.
> That's when I only had to kill-off only about 100 spam-hosts.
>
> Now I gotta convert again. Soon they'll be replacing `ls`
> with `echo *` and nothing will work.

iptables is a much better firewall than ipchains and, in my opinion, 
anybody using ipchains should upgrade to iptables.  I, for one, am quite 
pleased to see that ipchains will be removed.

--
Sean
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