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Steve Sutton wrote:
> I hope you guys can help me, 'cus I'm pretty much stuck getting IP
> Masquerading working.
>
> What I've done:-
> Installed RH7 (default kernel config)
> followed the IP-Masquerading-HOWTO (ie, created rc.firewall - which runs
> correctly)
>
> AFAIK, that's all I need to do, however, I can't contact the outside world
> from the masq'd machine. Do any of you have any experience with this
> setup, and know of any other steps that I need, or anything an masq newbie
> might miss?
> I can talk from the masq'd machine to the masq server, and from the masq
> server to the outside world, but not from the masq'd machine to the
> outside world. ipchains appear to be set up as the HOWTO suggests, and
> the server is the default route for traffic from the masq'd machine.
all you should need on the masquerading host is:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
ipchains -P forward DENY
ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ
is that what you're doing?
raf
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