Les Mikesell wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>>> Azeez, what you need is not trite retorts from resident list >> imbeciles (see Bill's response below), but rather to employ an >> iptables firewall application/script. There are numerous available >> to meet any need from simple to enterprise-capable. Firestarter, >> Shorewall, and I believe there is a basic firewall configuration >> utility in the distro. The web-based firewall gui in Webmin provides >> a very simple rudimentary funtion for this. There are many others. > > It might be as simple as: > modprobe iptable_nat > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > but if you have to ask the question, you might be better off with one of > the appliance systems that do this for you along with a lot of other > things - like SME server or Clarkconnect. > Strange - I don't remember writing any of the text attributed to me. Are you sure you got the quote correct Les? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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