Re: [TCLUG:8416] enabling portforwarding

[Mike Nielsen <mnielsen@iastate.edu>]

On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
In the kernel you have to have the following activated under Networking options

IP: masquerading
IP: masquerading special modules support

IP: ipportfw masq support


I'm not sure if you have to have Prompt for developmental blah blah code
under Code Maturity Options or not

> Hi,
> 
> I'm having some trouble getting ipmasqadm working. I can type in a rule,
> and it seems to take okay. When I do a 'ipmasqadm portfw -l' I get the
> message:
> 
> Could not open "/proc/net/ip_masq/portfw"
> Could not open "/proc/net/ip_portfw"
> Check if you have enabled portforwarding
> 
> I looked through Amy's HOWTO, and the 'ipmasqadm portfw -f' command
> doesn't seem to do it. Is there something else I have to do to get it
> enabled? The two files it's trying to open aren't even there.
> 
> I'm trying to get this going on a Slackware 4.0 machine with kernel
> 2.2.12. I thought I might've missed something last time I compiled the
> kernel, so I tried going through that again and didn't see any mention of
> portforwarding.
> 
> I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks.
> 
> 
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