Re: Defalut kernel and ip masquerading

[Stan Kaufman <sekfmn@pacbell.net>]

ulla.russell@pp.inet.fi wrote:
> 
> Someone on this list wrote recently wondering if
> they would need to recompile their kernel inorder
> to get ip masquerading working.
> 
> They are using a stock kernel version 2.0.38 that
> came with slink and said that when they executed the
> command...
> 
> /sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny
> 
> they got the following...
> 
> ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Protocol not available.
> 
> I suggested first using...
> 
> echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> 
> but this did not seem to help. Does the stock kernel
> not support ip masquerading or does the problem lie elsewhere.
> 
> TIA

I posted the question a couple weeks ago, only about the default potato
kernel, not slink. The response I got at the time was that it does *not*
enable ip masquerading and that a new kernel must be compiled.

Time to upgrade anyway! ;-)

Stan