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Re: [Plug] IP masquerading for the clueless
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Are you using a 2.2.* kernel? If so, (according to the kernel docs)
ipfwadm won't work with it.
Tracy Nelson wrote:
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> System: Debian 2.1, SMC EtherEZ, external USR 56K
> Problem: User is absolutely clueless about IPmasq
> ---
> So what do I have to do to get IPmasq to work? I've compiled all the stuff
> I "think" (note problem statement) should be necessary into the kernel, but
> when I try to initialize the firewall rules (ipfwadm -F -p deny), I get
> "ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Invalid argument". If I just blithely ignore
> this and try ipfwadm -F -a m -S 10.0.0.3/8 -D 0.0.0.0/0, I get "ipfwadm:
> setsockopt failed: no such file or directory". These are commands I just
> plucked from the mini-HOWTO, so obviously I have no real idea what I'm
> trying to do (other than get IPmasq running...).
>
> If anyone can shed any light on this, I'd really be grateful. Oh, it may
> help to mention that I'm getting SIOCSETATTR (sp?) errors on bootup, but I
> don't know what's causing them. init() reports that it's "initializing IP
> masquerading...done", but again I don't know exactly what it's doing (hmm,
> I'm beginning to see a pattern here...)
>
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