Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264726AbUIVLwN (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 07:52:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264795AbUIVLwN (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 07:52:13 -0400 Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.92]:36622 "EHLO anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264726AbUIVLwH (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 07:52:07 -0400 Message-ID: <41516764.8030205@superbug.co.uk> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:52:04 +0100 From: James Courtier-Dutton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040916) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@chaos.analogic.com CC: Rusty Russell , Marc Ballarin , Linus Torvalds , netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, lkml - Kernel Mailing List , "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away. References: <1095721742.5886.128.camel@bach> <20040921143613.2dc78e2f.Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de> <1095803902.1942.211.camel@bach> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 983 Lines: 33 Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Rusty Russell wrote: > > >>On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 22:36, Marc Ballarin wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:09:02 +1000 >>>"Rusty Russell (IBM)" wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Name: Warn that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away >>>>Status: Trivial >>>>Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell >>> > What replaces the firewall stuff? It can't just "go away"! > > Cheers, > Dick Johnson ipchains and ipfwadm are very old firewall implementations. The current linux firewall code is called "iptables" and that has been present for a long time time, and that is staying. So, the linux kernel still has firewall features, even with ipchains and ipfwadm removed. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/