Re: ipchains diagnostics
--- Patrick Kirk <patrick@kirks.net> wrote:
>
> Would you mind explaining when to use 10.0.0.0/8 10.0.0.0/24 and
> 10.0.0.0/32
With 10.0.0.0/24, the masquerading code will only forward from/to IPs
10.0.0.x, whereas with 10.0.0.0/8 10.x.x.x , which is probably what you want
(although it escapes me why anyone would need such a big private network? :)
> as I never understand and don't know if using the wrong one will break
> anything.
If it's wrong, your packets probably won't get routed.
Michel
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