The first line flushes any rulesets currently in memory.
The last line I don't know. try 'man ipmasqadm'
Derek
> 1)Does anyone know what the first and the last line do:
>
> /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -f
> /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $IP_REAL 51210 -R $TOIP_PC
> 51210 /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P udp -L $IP_REAL 51201 -R
> $TOIP_PC 51201 /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P udp -L $IP_REAL 51200
> -R $TOIP_PC 51200 /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -ln
>
> 2)When you make any changes to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, what do you have to
> do in order for the changes to take effect withOUT rebooting?
>
>
> THanks alot.
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