[ale] IP-Forwarding

Chris Ness cness at gloster.vivid.net
Mon Oct 6 18:11:29 EDT 1997


Robert L Harris wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hey,
> > I think there is a compile option to enable icmp forwarding. Did you enable
> > it? Do other packets make it out?

During kernel config, in "Networking Options", under "Protocol specific
masquerading support will be built as modules", you will find []ICMP
masquerading.

>
> > On 06-Oct-97 Robert L Harris was heard to have said:
> > |>Ok,
> > |>  Any idea why I can't ping outside my firewall?  Also, my diald isn't
> > |>dialing.  I'm using the rpm package from redhat.  Here's my diald.conf
> >
> > <-BIG Snip!->
> >
> 
> Compile time in what?  The kernel?  I compiled slip in, not as a module.
> I'll be trying your version of the connect script in a few mins....

Not SLIP, masquerading.

Masquerading is TCP only otherwise. Not even udp packets  will pass.
 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Robert L. Harris          |    If NT is the answer,
> System Engineer For Hire. \_     you don't understand the question.

??????

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