It sounds like you do not have the ipmasq package installed. On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 08:09:19PM +0100, lacostej wrote: > Hi, > > We are having trouble to set up NAT on a server to act as gateway to a private > home network. > > I've done so on other machines, but each time compiled my own kernel. This > time we tried to use Debian's. I.e. kernel-image-2.4.18-586tsc as distributed > in woody 3.0 images. > > The machine connects correctly to the web, but NAT doesn't work. > > We've found this comment on the following page: > http://www.aboutdebian.com/proxy.htm. > > "You can check to see if your kernel is set up for masquerading by issuing the > command: ls /proc/net/ip_masq " > > On our installation, this displays nothing. > > We checked the kernel config as found in the package referenced on page: > http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/kernel-image-2.4.18-586tsc.html > > and it seems that the kernel was compiled with everything necessary for NAT. > > Did we get something wrong? > Is the comment stating to check /proc/net/ip_masq still valid regarding kernel > 2.4.x? > Do we have to compile our own kernel, or is there something we can do to > correct the state. > > Cheers, > > Jerome > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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