From: wlfshmn@ramses.ml.org
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 12:24:15 +0200 (CEST)

Re: 2.1.107 notes

On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Joseph Carter wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 08:51:01AM -0400, Brian Julin wrote:
> > > Excellent... :-)  Thanks a bunch.  I've been kicking around the idea of
> > > installing a 2.1.107 kernel in place of my 2.0.32...  I'd be interested in
> > > testing GGI on that kernel in its full capacity.
> > 
> > Notes on 2.1.107 -- to save people some trouble.
> > 
> > 1) To run the fbdev stuff you need to patch with Geert's diff against
> > the vger tree; otherwise you get no display.
> 
> <nod>
> 
> 
> > 2) Upgrade to pppd 2.3.5 or greater.
> 
> <nod>
> 
> 
> > 3) Something may be amiss with ip_masq; I haven't gotten it to start
> > working again.  It's probably just a problem with ipfwadm, but
> > don't expect it to "just work" if you use it.
> 
> you need ipchains to replace ipfwadm.  The old ipfwadm line:
> 
>      ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
> 
> The new ipchains line:
> 
>      ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 192.168.1.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0
> 
> 
> Note that ipchains has an ipfwadm replacement, but this isn't included with
> Debian's current netbase (from hamm) becaise hamm is backwards compatible
> with the old versions.  I would have replaced ipfwadm with an alternatives
> thing, BUT.
> 
I think the slink netbase includes the ipchains utilities, as well as an
ipfwadm-wrapper for ipchains.


> If you want to support both, here's how:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> if [ -e /proc/net/ip_input ]; then
>   # 2.0.x or older 2.1.x stuff
> fi
> if [ -e /proc/net/ip_fwchains ]; then
>   # 2.1.102+ stuff
> fi
> 
> Good luck.
>