Re: [Sheflug] RedHat doesn't want to route - help!!

["Graham Cox" <grahamcox [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's a little program called pmfirewall that you can download and run
that will configure the linux firewall(IPChains or IPTables, depending on
your kernel version) automatically. This includes setting up IP Masquerading
rules in the firewall to do exactly what you want...

I've used it a number of times on various systems for exactly that reason
and never had any trouble with it...
--
Graham Cox

Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 20:40, Denis Nikitin wrote:
>> When logged in to gate itself - everything is fine:
>> all exernal sites are available as well as all internal
>> worstations are ping-ed ok.
>> Workstations (on internal network) can see the gate,
>> but cannot see anything else. Kind of useless gate.
>> Any help is very much appreciated, as I am stuck compeletely.
>
> You can't route packets from a private subnet to the public internet;
> packets get lost on the way back.
>
> Look up masquerading; I don't know how RHEL does it but it should be
> simple to setup. I would imagine there will be an admin tool to do it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex.
>
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