At 10:11 AM 5/1/98 -0400, Jake Colman wrote:
>Dan,
>
>Thanks for the the detailed reply. And thanks for all the other messages
that
>this thread has generated.
No problem.
>
>I appreciate the detailed help and explanation you provided. I _did_ read
much
>of the necessary documentation and I _do_ know how to build kernels and
>install them. You could not have known that and I appreciate the time you
took
>to explain.
Owell =)
>
>Now, having said all that...
>
>I built a new 2.0.32 kernel last night using unpatched sources and
>built/installed modules.
>
>1) After rebooting, I tried pinging an internet host from win95 and got
timeout
> errors. Looking again at the command you had me enter into rc.local,
is it
> possible that only ftp and irc will be forwarded? If I want ping to
work I
> have to add something else?
There are quite afew builtin (module not needed) features of masquarding.
ping, http, telnet and afew others.
>
>2) Should I have seen any message indicating that my ipmasq modules have been
> loaded? Is there anything I can do to prove whether things are working?
> Should dmesg show me something?
Nope, this is one thing that erks me aswell. redhat clears the screen
before login and you can't see the stuff that was included in your runlevel.
Did you make sure to set the win95 box's gateway to be the linux box?
>
>3) I was surprised to find that ipfwadm was not installed with RH5
> installation. I did not have my CD handy last night so I could not check
> whether it is available as an option RPM, Instead, I downloaded it from
> it's home page. Did I miss it somewhere or is it not installed by
default?
hmm, I'm using 4.2 but a friend is using 5.0 and he didn't tell me this
after he got it working (I'm quite sure he would have). Did you try 'find /
-iname ipfwadm' ?
>
>Thanx for all the help!
>
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