[tlug] Re: wither ipchains?

["big0" <big0@example.com>]

B0Ti writes: 

> On Wed, 07 Aug 2002 03:40:14 GMT
> "big0" <big0@example.com> wrote: 
> 
>> >   # rmmod iptables
>> >   # insmod ipchains 
>> 
>> This is wroooooooooooong! There is no such thing like iptables
>> or ipchains kernel modules. 
> wrooong!
> [root@example.com /]# lsmod |grep tables
> ip_tables              10304   2  [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
Like you can maybe also see the name is ip_tables, not iptables.
There are also other packet filer parts like iplimit etc. but
there is no iptables. It is the name of user-mode program. The module
mentioned above just enable support for tables in the kernel 

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