Set up a Linux firewall with ease using Firestarter
News You will also need to have either ipchains or netfilter/iptables installed, depending on which kernel you're running. Now, we're going to look at a front-end graphical user interface (GUI) you can use not only foriptables but for ipchains; as well.
[April 26, 2002, 9:26]
Linux firewalls from old PCs
News If you know ipchains well, it doesn't take much to learn the differences in iptables. This link provides a nice look at the advantages of iptables over ipchains. Firewall decision: iptables or ipchains?
[July 2, 2002, 13:26]
How to tweak Linux network files
News If the server is using ipchains, run the command /sbin/ipchains -F and then rerun the ping command. If this doesn't work, run the command /sbin/ipchains -L and make sure that the input policy isn't set to DENY.
[January 7, 2003, 8:56]
Build your own Linux server
Talkback Why doesn't the author tell us exactly what he's running when he runs Samba's "graphical configuration" or the ipchains "security applet"? The article is useless without any details.
[April 23, 2004, 21:01]
Build your own Linux server
Talkback RE Why doesn't the author tell us exactly what he's running when he runs Samba's "graphical configuration" or the ipchains "security applet"? The article is useless without any details. The author can't because samba (smd/nmd) dont have GUI's.
[April 24, 2004, 15:26]
Firewall Rules Analysis
White Papers It can discover all the anomalies in the firewall rule-set in the format that is usually used by many firewall products such as Cisco Access Control List, IPTABLES, IPCHAINS and Check Point Firewall-1.
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
Build your own Linux server
Talkback Whats all this about IPCHAINS? Don't what planet this author is on but there are other distro's out there that are just as good as SUSE and Red Hat. The latter is the Fedora project anyway! I use Mandrake 9.2 Linux on a self-built PC as a internet...
[April 29, 2004, 21:49]
Tech investments: Should you go for low cost or capability for growth?
News You might use a low-cost software firewall solution to protect the LAN, such as a Linux machine running ipchains (a simple packet filtering firewall), iptables/Netfilter (a stateful firewall included in versions 2.4.x of the Linux kernel...
[June 21, 2006, 16:15]
Tech investments: Should you go for low cost or capability for growth?
Talkback The article is also full of disinformation - for example, ipchains has not been a current Linux packet filtering technology since 2001, with the advent of the 2.4 kernel. Yet another advertising blurb for Microsoft.
[July 14, 2006, 15:55]
Bergen's CTO: Why we moved to Linux
Talkback For example if you need a firewall you have a fully featured enterprise firewall one in Linux (ipchains). We have had similar experiences albeit on a much smaller scale. Our migration to Linux started about 7 years ago when we moved from dial-up...
[June 17, 2004, 11:24]
Hack attacks on home PCs increase
News Referring to the Network Address Translation method that is used to 'hide' home PCs from the Internet, RaFA told ZDNet: "A gateway device that controls the natting functions is typically the first system compromised (i.e.wingate, ipchains, etc...
[August 29, 2001, 17:22]
