[PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away.

[William Stearns]

Good day, all,
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> > > I guess I'll have to convert 1340 lines of ipchains commands to
> > > iptables -yech!
> >
> > 	I have a script that does a first pass of converting an ipchains
> > firewall script to an iptables firewall script at
> >
> > http://www.stearns.org/i2i/ipchains2iptables
> > http://www.stearns.org/i2i/ipchains2iptables.README
> >
> > 	Because of architectural differences between the two firewall
> > technologies it can't produce a perfect translation, but it does handle
> > most of the grunt work.
> 
> Thanks. I just wrote a 10-line 'C' program to do it. Just changes
> "ipchains" to "iptables" and removes "-y". I had to add the
> create command on the first line, simple. Thanks -all.

	If that works for you, great, but depending on your firewall 
structure there are more differences between the two than simply replacing 
ipchains with iptables.
	Cheers,
	- Bill

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