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From: "rooker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 8:18 PM
Subject: [expert] NAT - proxy package
> I have been trying to setup Mandrake and ipchains on an old Pentium 100
> with 32meg RAM --
>
> The kernel is compiled to support ipchains on kernel 2.2.14---
> Ipchains and all the kernel modules are in place...
>
> The system gets a ip address via modem connection to the internet and ppp.
>
> The ethernet card is set as 169.254.0.1
> I've created an ipchainsup script created verbatim from some sample
> ipchains scripts I found on the web... I've now tried several different
> scripts and ipchains still refuses to work... I am now completely
> frustrated with ip chains...
>
> I can get the others systems on the network internet access by using the
> squid proxy package -- which works fine -- but for some reason will not
> allow you to send mail from a yahoo web mail account...Ie you cannot enter
> anything from one of the Windows98 client machines running IE5...but can
> surf and pull up any web page -- including reading yahoo mail.
> The location or address bar works just fine -- but the compose mail form
> refuses to work...and will work fine from the same machine under its own
> dial up connection...
>
> Is there a stand-alone app-based NAT or complete proxy package for Linux??
> (ala Sygate for Windows style...that is kernel independent...)
>
> Please help--
> James Rooker
>
