[ale] Inbound port forwarding.

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"Gary S. Mackay" wrote:
> 
> I had this all working just fine with a modem connection to the 'net. I
> recently installed a cable modem which works great, (except that they block
> port 80 but that's another story), but can not get the inbound forwarding to
> work now. I have an application running on an NT box behind the masq'd network
> that is listening on port 5993. I used that ipmasqadm command to forward that
> port from the linux box to the NT box. Worked just fine with the modem. Now I
> can see the packets come in on eth0 and die. I'm guessing I'm missing
> something that tells the packets to jump across to the eth1 card so they can
> get to the 192.168.x.x address of the NT box. What am I missing?

Whatever masq/forwarding you were doing to your ppp0 interface should be
changed to your cablemodem device, assuming it's a different interface
device.  Is eth0 your cablemodem device?  (he says displaying his
ignorance of cablemodems....)

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> - Gary
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