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

[Posted September 22, 2004 by corbet]

From:		William Stearns <wstearns-AT-pobox.com>
To:		"Richard B. Johnson" <root-AT-chaos.analogic.com>
Subject:		Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away.
Date:		Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:31:51 -0400 (EDT)
Cc:		Martin Josefsson <gandalf-AT-wlug.westbo.se>, Rusty Russell <rusty-AT-rustcorp.com.au>, Marc Ballarin <Ballarin.Marc-AT-gmx.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-osdl.org>, ML-netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel-AT-lists.netfilter.org>, lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem-AT-davemloft.net>, William Stearns <wstearns-AT-pobox.com>

Good day, all,

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Martin Josefsson wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > What replaces the firewall stuff? It can't just "go away"!
> >
> > Ever heard of iptables?
> 
> I guess I'll have to convert 1340 lines of ipchains commands to
> iptables -yech!

	I have a script that does a first pass of converting an ipchains 
firewall script to an iptables firewall script at 

http://www.stearns.org/i2i/ipchains2iptables
http://www.stearns.org/i2i/ipchains2iptables.README

	Because of architectural differences between the two firewall 
technologies it can't produce a perfect translation, but it does handle 
most of the grunt work.
	Cheers,
	- Bill

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