I am looking for some help on IP Masquerading. I'm running mostly slink with some hamm left over that I haven't gotten around to upgrading. I went through the mini-HOWTO and configured my kernel all fine, when I go to use a winsock application on my win3.1 machine (connected by ether), I have no problems except in netscape 3.01gold and ie 3.02 (though I don't care at all about ie). This is running the MSLanman 2.2c winsock (for samba). For some reason, netscape can resolve DNS names, but not connect to the hosts (FTP or HTTP) while opera can do both, and WS_FTP has no problems.
When I installed SOCKS4 for debugging purposes, and configured netscape, suddenly it could contact hosts and bring back sites and dir listings, but with some problems. if I give it an IP then it has no problems unless there is an inline to another domain in the html document, in which case it doesn't bring back that image (registers as broken), when I give it a domain name, it resolves, contacts the server, then stops at "waiting for reply." I'm not too sure what could cause that. I would prefer not to use SOCKS and only have the IP-Masquerading doing my forwarding, but if I require SOCKS, I'm more than ready to use it. any ideas? I can't use opera forever as it times out in a few days. -Dan Brosemer btw, I am loading the ftp_ipmasq_mod.o or whatever the name is (along with all the others like it I could find. thanks in advance!