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Hi, Running 2.2 kernel with ipchains etc.. firewall setup. Have got a simple firewall and have tried both the ipmasq package and a simple firewall builder GUI called firestarter (seems pretty good for my requirements). The problem I am having, after successfully compiling and installing the ip_masq_portfw module, is that the port forwarding is timeing out (despite clearly listening for connections on the fw port). I have an ADSL modem with ip EXT_IP and a machine (not the firewall) with internal ip INT_IP and have configured port forwarding as seems pretty standard for a web server as follows ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L EXT_IP 80 -R INT_IP 8081 ipmasqadm portfw -a -P udp -L EXT_IP 80 -R INT_IP 8081 (tomcat server as the target). When I issue the commands above I can tell that forwarding has partially started as my browser pointing to http://EXT_IP:80 continues to attempt to load the site (before issueing the portfw commands the browser comes straight back with unable to connect to host). If I issue a lsmod I can see the module is being used. I cannot find any logging. Have played with hosts.allow and hosts.deny. Finally I tried a "$ telnet EXT_IP 80" and which stayed in a waiting to connect state. Any ideas why I might be getting timeouts? Clearly something in the chain is not passing on reuqests. Suggestions welcome and very appreciated... Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
