On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:07:34PM +0200, Peter Palmreuther wrote: > Hello Andreas, > > On Thursday, August 23, 2001 at 2:37:11 PM, > you wrote (at least in part): > > > or does the standard kernel support masquerading? > > I've installed a Debian 2.2 (w/o 'r') shipped with kernel 2.2.17, am using > this kernel and have installed a masquerading firewall, so the standard kernel > coming with Debian should support it. > > I'm using package 'ipmasq' for starting / stopping firewall and I've not seen > it loads a separated module for activating this functionality.
eh. This is just a guess, but I'm guessing that the ipmasq program uses the standard firewall rules to do masquerading. Or you can do a kernel compile and enable the module / option for masquerading in the kernel. There shouldn't be any real difference between them, other than with the kernel support a simple rule would do the job without needing the ipmasq package, and might be slightly faster. HT(random speculation)H, :) Mike McGuire
