[ale] Re: Ping through Masq'ing firewall?

[Chris Ricker]

On  5 Jan, Robert L Harris wrote:
> I did menuconfig so I could cut and paste it.  In the 2.1.X kernel there
> is no ICMP Masq support apparaently. :
> 
> {0}:moat:/lib/modules/2.1.64/ipv4>ls
> ip_masq_ftp.o     ip_masq_irc.o     ip_masq_quake.o   ip_masq_raudio.o
> {0}:moat:/lib/modules/2.1.64/ipv4>

Actually, at least 2.1.77 has ICMP support.  I don't know how good it
is, though, because it won't boot on the computer I run 2.1.x on ;-).

> I need to upgrade to Redhat-5.0 to use kernel 2.0.33 so the subsystems
> will be up to par.  Problem is there is no floppy or CD in this machine
> which makes it hard to boot from floppies.

???  You can run 2.1.x, but not 2.0.33?  I don't understand....

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                 gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu