IP masquerading

Robert Meyer meyer_rm at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 26 07:48:47 EST 2001


--- Chin Khee Tan <ck571 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm starting to play around with my Linux box again.
> Was out of town for a few days. I think I'm just going
> to take things one at a time. I'm starting off with
> masquerading my internal network, with Linux running
> Mandrake 8.1 as my server. I found a script to enable
> masquerading, but for some reason, it doesn't seem to
> recognize the ipchains command.

By default, Mandrake 8.1 uses the new IPTABLES firewall system.  You can read
up on it a bit and probably figure out the equivalents for the stuff fairly
quickly.  I think that there is even a site out there with conversion examples
but I can't remember right now.

 
> 192.168.1.1 is the internal IP of my gateway.
> 
> The following is part of the script in
> etc/rc.d/init.d/ipmasq file.
> 
> 
> /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY
> /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/22 -j MASQ
> 
> 
> I still have problems running the Samba server, but
> I'll deal with those later.
> 
> When and where are your weekly meetings held?

We meet on the third Sunday of the month in the Georgian Room at the Statler
Towers on Delaware Avenue in Buffalo.  It's right across from City Hall.

> 
> Merry Christmas!


Merry Christmas...

Bob

=====
Bob Meyer
Knightwing Communications, Inc.
36 Cayuga Blvd
Depew, NY 14043
Phone: 716-308-8931 or 716-681-0076
Meyer_RM at Yahoo.com

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