On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:02:41 -0800
Stephen Mah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

# 
# I noticed ipchains was used for Valhalla and iptables is now used on
# 8.0. What's the difference between the two? Is the default "medium"
# iptable setting good enough to protect me when using a VPN client?

Ipchains was first, then came iptables.  Iptables replaces the older
ipchains, as part of the 'netfilter' code of the Linux kernel.  Iptables
is much more advanced, yet holds a lot of the same syntax. 
www.netfilter.org is a great place to start for reading up on it.

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