Hi
Unfortunately I'm probably not bold enough to recompile IPFWADM into my kernal at this time either.
From what I understand, IPFWADM is IP Firewall Admin which is a lesser quality predecessor to IPCHAINS. Therefore you would still be installing a firewall of sorts.
I have compiled IPFWADM into the kernel before and have had no problems at all. Not though that it was not on a RaQ.
I have tried putting the unwanted IP's that i have into /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf and have had good success with that. Though I am not sure if this is a particularly good way to block out people it did work for me.
I am still waiting for someone to reply to my previous post, "Blocking IP's". Anyone out there brave enough to give an answer :)
That's it for my two cents worth. James
Has anyone else out there attempted this kernal recompile, and would they like to report the results?