Re: Trying to use ipmasqadm

[James Morrison <ja2morri@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

"David Demland" <demland@cox.net> writes:

> I am trying to use port forwarding on my Sparc 5. It has a 2.2 kernel. When
> I try to use the command:
> 
> ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -R 10.0.0.253 1723 -L 192.168.1.5 1723
> 
> I get the message:
> 
> portfw: setsockopt failed: Invalid argument
> 
> When I do:
> 
> ipmasqadm portfw -l
> 
> I get the messages:
> 
> Could not open "/proc/net/ip_masq/portfw"
> Could not open "/proc/net/ip_portfw"
> Check if you have enabled portforwarding
> 
> What have I not configured right to get the port forwarding to work?
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> David Demland
> 

 I don't remember any kernel port forwarding working in linux 2.2.  What I
did while I ran a 2.2 kernel, on sparc, is to use a program called portfw, 
iirc.  However, I know there is a program called fastforward that will do the
job as well.

James A. Morrison