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all you need is ipmasqadm you dont need to let everybody to masq on your
mechains.
it also has in you kernel to portfowerd,
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Fuzzy Fox wrote:

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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > If you want the internal server to be accessible from the outside, try
> > these lines in your script:
> > 
> >     ipchains -F forward
> >     ipcahins -P forward MASQ
> 
> Ugh!  This is the worst advice I've seen given out on this list. 
> Nothing personal, but.. this is very bad.  It means that, not only can
> your internal LAN masquerade its way out, but.. anyone on the whole Net
> can masquerade their way INTO your LAN!  They'll end up pretending to
> look like your masq box to internal systems!
> 
> Furthermore, the above is not needed at all to get port-forwarding to
> work.
> 
> > Portfw only works when masqing is turned on for both directions.
> 
> Simply not true.  If you didn't get it working before, there was
> something else wrong.  This wasn't the fix.
> 
> The port-forwarding code works by searching the forwarding rules for a
> masq entry that will work in the opposite direction from the connection
> being forwarded.  So enabling masq in that direction won't help!
> 
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