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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> 2.4.31 uses a different system, proxy instead of packet, and does not have
> those three config lines.  A search on ipchains and masquerade in
> kernel documentation suggested:
>
> CONFIG_NETFILTER=Y              to use masquerade
> CONFIG_IP_NF_COMPAT_IPCHAINS=Y  to 'put back' ipchains capability
>
> I did not find FIREWALL in .config
> David, or anyone else with 2.4.31, are these two all I need?

Maybe the firewall is not working perfectly (how would I know?), but 
ipchains worked when I add the above two to my kernel config.  ipchains 
could be a module.

http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/2.4.31/bzimasmf.431 and confsmf.431

Support for s - sound and scsi (modules)
           f - framebuffer (vesafb, and modules for matrox, riva, aty)
           f  - ipchains firewall built-in
            also built-in ide-zip

The two 'Y's added 22,202 bytes to make the kernel 699,539.

My little laptop kernel is 603K - no sound, scsi, framebuffer etc.
I will add firewall to it eventually.

Sindi

Doc said this is proxy method and works better but it is harder to set up. 
Not that hard with instructions.