by >Hello all - I'm trying to set up IP masquerading on my Linux box, yet it
>refuses to work from my Win95 clients. I recompiled with all the usual
>options and added the services I needed (only FTP right now) to rc.local.
>(I'm running 2.0.30 kernel)
>DNS names resolve fine, but I can't connect to anything through any
protocol.
>I've set the default gateway on my PC's, yet it won't work for anything
other
>than DNS. Would my ipfwadm policies be any different since I'm running two
>static IP ethernet cards, versus 1 ethernet and 1 PPP link? My current
>forwarding policies are like so...
>ipfwadm -F -p deny
>ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
>Yet all I can do is resolve domain names, and nothing else. The linux box
>can ping and browse (through lynx) the internet and the lan just fine, so I
>know it isn't the problem. Please help me out here, I'm sure it is
something
>simple.
make your default route point to the internet (ppp0 i presume):
route add -net default -ppp0
add a route to your windows host:
route add -host 192.168.1.whatever -eth0
I guess we could do this only using ipfwadm but them policies are quite
a headache to setup IMHO.
Works fine for me !