Re: ip masquerade : which one?
Nope! IPMASQ is not required. I bet serious admin will not use it.
It's for ppl like me at home with cable modem and university student on
Ethernet.
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 06:50:32PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> The ipmasq package is not *REQUIRED* to set up MASQ rules, but is a
> tool which simplifies the process.
>
> I suspect one could set up firewalling chains without the ipchains
> package by writing to /proc, but that would probably be a bit difficult
> to administer by hand.
ipmasq is just convenience package. If you run ipmasq with -v, you get
actual scripts it runs. You can write equivalent as a part of init.d
scripts (most likely as a part of rc.S for debian).
Writing to proc system is turn on ipmasq function in kernel. NAT
configuration shall be done through ipfwadm?(I forgot), ipchains or
iptables unless you have very special hack which I do not use.
see my comment on different thread.
Regards,
Osamu
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