Security and IPchains

Gavin Hemphill yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Dec 10 18:22:01 2003


Use iptables
	G++

Derick Centeno wrote:

> Background: Sometime ago I reported to this list that anaconda creates 
> an image during an installation or reinstallation of its own security 
> settings irregardless of whatever options selected by the user or Sys. 
> Admin.
> This is so even if one selected a trusted device, and one was careful to 
> select customized options as opposed to default. 
> I have a nice reference text on Linux Sys. Admin. I used it to try to 
> correct the above described problem and discovered that the installed 
> kernel doesn't recognize ipchains!!  Here is a portion of the screen 
> after I searched for (using the find command) where the ipchains command 
> lives:
> 
> /sbin/ipchains
> /sbin/ipchains-save
> [root@arakus aguila]# cd /sbin
> [root@arakus sbin]# ./ipchains -L
> ipchains: Incompatible with this kernel
> [root@arakus sbin]# ipchains -L
> bash: ipchains: command not found
> [root@arakus sbin]# ./ipchains -L
> ipchains: Incompatible with this kernel
> [root@arakus sbin]#
> 
> Any suggestions???
> 
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