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["Carl Reaburn" <carlreaburn AT attech.net.au>]

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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: [BL] ipfwadm in BL3


> Carl Reaburn wrote:
> > How do I get ipfwadm or similar to work with BL3?
>
> You need a kernel with that capability (eg bare.i).
> The default BL3 does not do firewalling.
>
> > I had it working perfectly with BL1 a couple years ago.
>
> The default BL1 kernel did do firewalling.  BL1 also
> included the ipfwadm executable.
>
> > These lines worked in BL1, but not BL3 :(
> > /sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny
> > /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a accept -b -P tcp -S $allnet $anyport -D $mail 25
> > /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a accept -b -P tcp -S $mail 25 -D $allnet $anyport
>
> That should work in BL3 if you add /sbin/ipfwadm from
> Slackware 4.0 and the bare.i kernel from Slackware 7.1.
> However, you might want use ipchains instead of ipfwadm.
> It's a newer firewalling utility (for the 2.2 kernel).

I am not able to find ipfwadm or ipchains for slackware.

And I thought I was doing so well by installing tulip to support running BL3 
under Virtual PC all by myself.