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Re: seting up a gateway



On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:34:39PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:15:06PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:29:12PM +0000, Hereward Cooper wrote:
> > > Also what do i need a 2.4.6 kernel for it to work, am i right in
> > > thinking that it is different from 2.2.x?
> > 
> > I know you will need iptables for a 2.4 kernel (haven't been there
> > yet).  For 2.2 kernels it is as simple as "apt-get install ipmasq"
> > (which will install ipchains which does the "real" work) and then tell
> > the others on the LAN to use your IP as the default gateway.
> 
> is ipmasq not available (or not functional) for newer
> iterations? i'd expect it to use iptables if that's better for
> newer kernels, just as it uses ipchains for 2.2 and ipfwadm for
> older renditions. no?

The version of ipmasq in woody supports iptables as well as ipchains
and ipfwadm.  So does the one on Adrian Bunk's page about using 2.4.x
kernels with potato <http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html>.



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