Re: connection refused with portfw

[Samy Abbes <sabbes@cfcc.ie-eg.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 05:17, Samy Abbes wrote:
> >
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> [snip]
>
> > ipmasqadm portfw -f
> > ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $extip 80 -R 192.168.0.7 80
> >
> > Now, when I type the external IP $extip of my_firewall in a browser,
> > it gives me the following message : "the connection was refused when
> > attempting
> > to contact $extip". I expected to be connected to 192.168.0.7 of course.
> [snip]
>
> Does your browser _actually_ display "$extip", or are you just
> putting it in there for privacy?
>

The browser displays the actual IP address. It put "$extip" here only  for
privacy.
I tryed to connect from internal and external hosts with the same result.
Samy