On 05/21/2016 11:25 PM, Ralph Sanchez wrote: > Mason is telling me my kernel doesnt support IPtable, Ipchains or the > third option...iptables is installed. Kernel version 3.16.?? (i > forget). Just wandering what's wrong here. Here's the terminal > output... > > onyx@FBI:~$ sudo mason > Loading options from /etc/masonrc...Check vars...ipchains was not > found in your path or in /sbin. You may need to copy it > or add an explicit path to it in the following commands. > ipfwadm was not found in your path or in /sbin. You may need to copy it > or add an explicit path to it in the following commands. > Editor default of /usr/bin/vi taken. > Load IPs, networks and nameservers...Done. > This kernel does not support ipchains, ipfwadm or iptables! > ---- Mason firewall builder for Linux ---- > ---- see http://www.pobox.com/~wstearns/mason/ for more info. ---- > ---- William Stearns <wstea...@pobox.com> ---- > (This is release 1.0.0-11 - 2008-06-27 ) > > > Also, this is my first time setting up a firewall on Debian, so if > there is a better package that's both powerful and user friendly, a > nudge towardsit would be a greatly appreciated thing
you may consider to use nftables. The package is not installed by default.
