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Is 'iptables' available for IRIX? - karynroberts - 11-16-2021

As the subject says - is iptables availabe for IRIX?

Cheers

RE: Is 'iptables' available for IRIX? - Raion - 11-16-2021

iptables is a Linux-only firewall. IRIX is system V derived (think similar to Solaris, Illumos, HP-UX) and like those has ipfilter, which is more similar to ipfw or the BSD PF/NPF solutions.

http://wiki.irixnet.org/IPFilter

Information on the option.

RE: Is 'iptables' available for IRIX? - karynroberts - 11-17-2021

Yeah I had figured as much - just hoping to save the learning curve.  Do you have a link to the package by chance?

RE: Is 'iptables' available for IRIX? - Raion - 11-17-2021

ipfilter is often already preinstalled. Check if chkconfig has a "ipfilter" command. If not, I think it can be installed from the overlays?

RE: Is 'iptables' available for IRIX? - karynroberts - 11-17-2021

(11-17-2021, 12:56 AM)Raion Wrote:  ipfilter is often already preinstalled. Check if chkconfig has a "ipfilter" command. If not, I think it can be installed from the overlays?
I checked, not preinstalled - but I'll dig a bit deeper - thanks for the help! Smile

RE: Is 'iptables' available for IRIX? - Raion - 11-17-2021

Ok, if someone else can tell Karyn what it's on or if there was an independent tardist (I never really used it so I never bothered to save things back when Nekochan was up, d'oh!!!)

RE: Is 'iptables' available for IRIX? - karynroberts - 11-17-2021

(11-17-2021, 02:39 AM)Raion Wrote:  Ok, if someone else can tell Karyn what it's on or if there was an independent tardist (I never really used it so I never bothered to save things back when Nekochan was up, d'oh!!!)

Thanks once more for the help - my ultimate goal is to be able to block countries like iptables - chief offenders of course china, russia etc - if it's more trouble than it's worth, then I'll just rely upon an external firewall, which I do anyway, but I'll be opening 'httpd, ftpd, telnetd' and select other ports for an SGI BBS scene system so due diligence at the system level will be key.  Even back in the day I didn't use, nor was aware of ipfilter - so the learning curve will be steep.

RE: Is 'iptables' available for IRIX? - ducks - 11-17-2021

Tardist can be found here: http://nekofiles.irixnet.org/General/6.5.16_ipfilter_3.4.27.tardist

And some documentation: https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Firewall-NAT_with_IPFilter

RE: Is 'iptables' available for IRIX? - karynroberts - 11-18-2021

(11-17-2021, 12:58 PM)ducks Wrote:  Tardist can be found here: http://nekofiles.irixnet.org/General/6.5.16_ipfilter_3.4.27.tardist

And some documentation: https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Firewall-NAT_with_IPFilter

Thanks so much!