Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265817AbUIVOXz (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:23:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265800AbUIVOXz (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:23:55 -0400 Received: from mail.dynextechnologies.com ([65.120.73.98]:18561 "EHLO mail.dynextechnologies.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265887AbUIVOUU (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:20:20 -0400 Message-ID: <415189DB.6090003@capitalgenomix.com> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:19:07 -0400 From: "Fao, Sean" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@chaos.analogic.com CC: Martin Josefsson , 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: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Sep 2004 14:20:20.0459 (UTC) FILETIME=[4A9AB3B0:01C4A0AF] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 780 Lines: 23 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 - 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/