From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 Description of problem: As far as I can tell ipchains is incompatible with the 2.4 kernel and nothing in Red Hat 9 depends on ipchains. So why is ipchains included in the distribution now we have iptables? Request to remove ipchains from Red Hat 9. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.'rpm -e ipchains' removes redundant software from system, with no adverse effects. Additional info:
ipchains is compatible with all 2.4 kernels, and is used by many people, (including myself) which is why it is present in Red Hat Linux. It has no real increased maintenance cost to keep it in the distribution, and so there is no major reason to remove it from the distribution at this point. It is not redundant software. It is used by thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of users and customers who have long established ipchains firewall rulesets and aren't ready to change them over to iptables just yet for whatever their individual reasons are. My personal reason is because "it just works for me" and I couldn't be bothered to change my ruleset over to iptables yet even though I know iptables is far superior. It's a "if it is not broke, don't fix it" thing. Closing NOTABUG.