There isn't a way to do it with current tools like ipautofw or whatever it's called
to just take ports if they are <1024 on the client, to shove them out so they are
<1024 as well?

Tom

Fuzzy Fox wrote:

> Thomas Ruth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Can someone help me with rlogin?
>
> Maybe, if you keep bugging me about it.  :)
>
> > How do I configure the masquerading firewall to let rlogin use ports
> > under 1024?
>
> Well, see, that's the problem, you can't.  The way masq is designed, all
> masqueraded connections will be in the masq port range, somewhere
> between 60000-65535.  That's nowhere near the required 0-1024 range that
> rlogin/rsh require.  So I'm afraid it won't be possible using masq.
>
> However, I had an idea recently to use the transparent-proxy feature of
> the Linux kernel to trap outgoing rlogin/rsh requests, and proxy them to
> the intended machine.  It would work because the proxy could preserve
> the desired port range.  But I'm not sure if I know what I'm doing,
> because I don't have a spec for the protocol used.
>
> I got about halfway through building the proxy code, then my need for
> such a utility disappeared.  I suspect I'll have a need for it again in
> a few months, but for now, development has stalled for a bit.
>
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