On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Jesse Keating wrote: > 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
and before ipchains there was ipfwadm. > 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. > > The documentation CD is a great place to start reading up on it.
