AW: ipmasq support in potato kernel

["Andreas Leitner" <aleitner@macron.at>]

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> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. August 2001 14:37
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> Betreff: ipmasq support in potato kernel
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> Hi All
> 
> I'm trying to get IP masquerading working on my Debian 2.2r3 box.
> 
> I won't go into all the details yet, but I'm wondering if any of
> the 'standard' kernels have support built in. (I haven't been
> brave enough to compile my own kernel yet)
> 
> At present I'm using the standard 2.2.18pre21, does anyone have
> ipmasq working with this or any other of the precompiled images?
> 
> Or do I _have_ to compile my own?

Yesterday I set up a 2.2r1 box, upgraded to woody and set it up (with
firestarter) to do masquerading. I set up a client to use the new
machine as a gateway and it worked out of the box.

Only then I read that the kernel that comes with 2.2 does not support
masquerading my default and that I have to roll my own. Which kind of
surprised me, since my box seemed to work.

Does anybody know if I did something _wrong_, because it works (maybe
the other/old gateway still does the job and I misconfigured something),
or does the standard kernel support masquerading? 

Thanks in advance,
Andreas
PS: Box is Pentium 166, Kernel is default install Kernel from the
official CDs, not changed when upgrading to woody.