[SATLUG] Automatically close open ports after install

R P Herrold herrold at owlriver.com
Mon Sep 30 10:05:03 CDT 2002


On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Bruce Dubbs wrote:

> For some mysterious reason, RH 7.3 uses ipchains, not iptables.  You 
> have to recompile the kernel to get iptables to work.

no you don't -- read the doco in the NAG or the RELEASENOTES 
for 7.2 (present in 7.3 on disk as well), and don't 
insmod/modprobe ipchains

then a insmod/modprobe of iptables works fine

-- Russ Herrold





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