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

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Martin Josefsson wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > > Sure, but you have to start somewhere.  Next step will be #error.  Then
> > > finally remove the whole thing (I don't want to remove the whole thing
> > > to start with, since that would create a silent failure).
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Rusty.
> > > --
> >
> > What replaces the firewall stuff? It can't just "go away"!
>
> Ever heard of iptables?
>
> /Martin

I guess I'll have to convert 1340 lines of ipchains commands to
iptables -yech!

I had convert something to ipchains a couple of years ago.
That's when I only had to kill-off only about 100 spam-hosts.

Now I gotta convert again. Soon they'll be replacing `ls`
with `echo *` and nothing will work.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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