[ale] Q about masquerade on 2.0.1

[Chris Farris]

enable Alpha or Expermental drivers. It's one of the first options in
make config or make menuconfig.

I had the same problem.

2.0.1 is out?

Chris
> 
> Well, I've finally found the time to sit down and try to make ip 
> masquerading work, so the first thing I do is download 2.0.1 and compile 
> away.  Well, after doing that, I restart, and using the newest version of 
> ipfwadm and following instructions from some web page, I try:
> 
> /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a masquerade -S 192.168.2.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
> 
> And I got the message that setsockopt failed :(.  Nothing complains if I 
> replace masquerade with accept, but that doesn't do what I want...
> 
> Then I think back the the menuconfig I did and don't seem to remember 
> saying yes to CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE... So I looked at the .config and it 
> wasn't there. I tried old make config and it didn't ask either. And yet, 
> the makefile in ipv4 checks for CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE.  I decided to be a 
> bit of a rebel and go into the .config file (you know, the one it says 
> not to edit ;) ) and edit it to include that particular define.
> 
> make dep ; make clean ; make zImage ; make modules ; make modules_install
> (yes, I remembered to re-run lilo...)
> 
> Still no dice...
> 
> Anyone know why the CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE isn't in config anymore? Anyone 
> have masquerading working on 2.0.1?  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> I apologize for the length of this message, I'm just trying to be as 
> descriptive as possible.  Hopefully I've just done something really 
> stupid so it will be easy to fix. ;)
> 
> --Bradford Powell
> --vaps4bp at prism.gatech.edu
>  -- 
>