About:
ipchains is the user-space portion of the new Linux packet filter code, which was introduced into the mainstream kernel in version 2.1.102. Included is an extensive HOWTO, man pages and the ipchains source.

Author:
Paul ``Rusty'' Russell <Paul [dot] Russell [at] rustcorp [dot] com [dot] au> [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://netfilter.samba.org/ipchains/
Tar/GZ:
http://netfilter.samba.org/ipchains/ipchains-1.3.10.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://netfilter.samba.org/ipchains/changelog.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C, Unix Shell
[Topic]		Internet, Security

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.3.10	04-Oct-2000	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] IPChains
by Larry Cody - Jul 15th 2001 20:50:30

Thanks for a good, working firewall for Linux. The ease with which the program installs, along with the easy to understand documentation, provides us Linux users with security akin to Raptor and Checkpoint.

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Larry Cody Secure Technology Solutions Atlanta, GA USA

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[»] IPChains is easier than IPFwAdm
by Chris Pimlott - Mar 25th 1999 03:51:25

I agree, I had a much easier time setting up firewalling under ipchains than ipfwadm. ipchains has some nice powerful options that are quite easier to configure in only a few commands... I found I needed fewer ipchains commands to do what I was doing with ipfwadm.

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