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Carl Reaburn wrote:
>
> I have found BL3 has things in different places to 
> what the how-to pages suggest.  
> BL1 by comparison had everything named the same as the 
> how-to pages suggested, as well as great documentation 
> inside the config files themselves.  

BL1 was designed to be used as a firewall.  Few people
used that capability, so it was removed in BL2.  As far
as things being in different places, BL3 uses one startup
file (/etc/rc) while most systems have a bunch of startup
files in a separate directory ( /etc/rc.d/  or similar).
Just stick your firewall commands in /etc/rc.

Another difference between BL1 and BL3 is:  the 2.0 kernel 
(BL1) uses ipfwadm and the 2.2 kernel (BL2,BL3) uses ipchains.
So the config commands are different. 

> I had no trouble setting up BL1 without any help.   
> I thought BL3 would be the same,

The ipchains-HOWTO has a table of differences so you should 
be able to translate your working config from BL1.  

> I hope you don't think me a fool.  

Anybody who can successfully run a firewall on BL1 is
definitely not a fool.

Cheers,
Steven

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