Re: Finally...

At 11:09 PM 9/18/2004 +0200, you wrote:
>Note that Red Hat Linux 9 has reached end-of-life on April 30th 2004,
>  http://www.redhat.com/security/archives.html
>and you may need to get further security fixes for Red Hat Linux 9 from
>a commercial project like>
>  Progeny Transition Service
>  http://transition.progeny.com/>
>or free updates from the community project>
>  Fedora Legacy
>  http://www.fedoralegacy.org

<---Thanks for the tips. I'd upgrade to Fedora but I have a rather
escoteric app that needs OSS and Fedora2 doesn't support OSS anymore..

>TCP wrappers has nothing to do with ipchains/iptables and is still
>available. 

<--Yes, I'm aware TCP wrappers are separate :-). 

Whether you may need to convert to iptables/netfilter depends
>on what features of ipchains you need. The ipchains implementation in
>the 2.4 Linux kernel series is just a limited compatibility layer on
>top of netfilter. Some features are not available.

<---If RH9 will allow the use of ipchains for now, that's what I'm after.
Later on, I'll convert to iptables but ipchains serves my purposes just
fine and I didn't want to undertake that just at this moment.

Ken

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