Hi, all... I'm another "normal" Debian user (non-newbie/non-guru <grin>) and I have some questions on iptables and using modules under 2.4.x.
I've been running an older Debian system for a while and started out with ipfwadm on a 2.0.x kernel. Sometime later I upgraded and a wrapper for ipchains was installed. I had intended to go thru things and learn ipchains and re-write all my rules to that format, but never got around to it. Today, I upgraded this machine to woody and built a 2.4.x kernel and installed iptables. I think it went well, as I did some reading and created new rules for my firewall using iptables, but I think I probably have a bunch of older files from my 2.0.x kernel install that are probably handled a new way today. Can anyone give an overview or pointer to a good writeup of how things are organized now vs how they were done before, so that I can go thru my files and learn how to set things up properly? I think I'm not using the new system of ifup and ifdown and I think this might be the cleaner and simpler setup to go with (I have 2 interfaces on my machine: one is to the internet, the other is for my private net). I'm also hoping to get some help on modules. It looks like kmod is the current system, but I also have a /etc/modules file that is getting run by /etc/intit.d/modutils, but I think this is the old way and might be interfering with things getting loaded properly now (things aren't loading as I'd expect them to). I'd expect that with kmod I no longer have to use insmod or modprobe manually now and some fuzzy memory of something I read suggests that I might just need to create some alias entries in a config file somewhere so that the modules are loaded when the kernel sees requests for the functions provided by those modules. ? Thanks in advance... you guys have always been really helpful. :) -Chris
