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Re: IP Masquerading: no connection to external network



On Saturday 23 June 2001 01:37, you wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 01:22:37AM +0200, Brendon wrote:
> > On Saturday 23 June 2001 01:11, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > > How did you setup masquerading, did you install ipmasq.deb or did
> > > you try everything by hand?
> >
> > I used the mini howto on www.linuxnewbie.org next to the Masquerading
> > HOWTO. the iptables rules were setup by gShield. when i found that did
> > not work i used the rc.firewall script given by the HOWTO.
>
> My advice: try it first with ipmasq.deb, it is a really nice package.
> It lets you easily set up a basic nat gateway.  Once you get it working
> with ipmasq, you can always change to your homebrew setup.  And if
> it doesn't work with ipmasq either, well, submit a bug against ipmasq
> (after you had rtfm that comes with the package of course).

all in debian style, it worked automagically.. scary :)

cheers, i wasn't familar with the package.

Brendon



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