On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 12:32:03PM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote: > Forgive me if this is a faq.... > > It seems like masquerading is not turned on in the stock kernel-image > packages. Is this true or am I forgetting to load a module somewhere? If > it's true, does anybody know why that decision was made?
I have no clear answer for you, Joe, but something similar happened for me, and other debian-user folks seemed puzzled about it at the time. I'm wondering now if this might be an effect of having a prior configuration file on the premises when installing a new kernel. (?) Because of a variety of problems I had during install, I ended up booting from a hard disk I'd installed 'slink' on almost a year ago -- and the next thing I knew, I had the version of 'potato' that was current in early March telling me "IP Masquerading is not enabled in the kernel." On advice of not-so-newbies, I proceeded to custom-compile a version of that kernel, and got Masquerading operational. Now, with the recent kernel upgrade that's become available in the past week, Masquerading is still working, for me -- so, either the latest kernel has it switched 'on' by default, or the configuration files on my machine after the custom-compile had a beneficent effect. :-) Dunno which. -- -- Jeff -- <http://www.wellnow.com> "There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve."
