Steve, I think you may be happier (i.e. spend less time working on this) if you can drum up a copy of "redir" or "transproxy" for your Cobalt Cube. Both of these are stable tools that I used quite heavily before the Linux kernel incorporated a true DNAT (2.4) or port-forwarding (hacked into 2.2).
HTH, tony On 10 Apr 2002, Steve Johnson wrote: > i have an old cobalt cube on my network running a cutom 2.0.34 kernel, > that i'm finding is going to be really hard to upgrade, it's not running > debian, but everything else in here is :) so i'm only asking here > because i've read the docs and tried everywhere else for help. > > anyway, > it has ipfwadm(note: ipmasqadm is not on it) tool for handling masqing > and filtering, it's currently set up to masq everything from inside to > outside, and nothing else. i have a server inside running backups, > pulling data from web servers remotely, that is working great, however, > i need to be able to ssh into that machine from the outside, there's > only one real (external) ip that's attatched to the cube, can i, using > ipfwadm, set it up to route any ssh requests to that machine on that ip > to the interal backup server? i've tried everything, i'm just not that > familiar with firewalling, if it's possible can someone send me a sample > script with the appropriate rules to forward those packets? thanks in > advance for you help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]