Les Mikesell wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> 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? > > Thunderbird did my quoting - and what I replied to (yours) did not have > any quoting on the parts now 3 levels deep. > Thunderbird may have done the quoting, but you did the trimming. Strange how you managed to trim out all of the stuff I wrote. It looks like you took a message that replied to one of mine, and trimmed out the part from me. I would expect someone with your claimed experience not to make a mistake like that. Or was it a mistake? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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