Re: IP Firewalling/Forwarding baffles me

1998-09-17 Thread Miller Paul
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Kendall P. Bullen wrote: > The protected machine is running Solaris 2.5.1 (possible to be > upgraded to 2.6). It has another 'private' IP address, 192.168.2.2. > (Using those private network numbers seemed like a good idea for > security reasons.) It can ping the IP address

Re: IP Firewalling/Forwarding baffles me

1998-09-16 Thread Pete Harlan
> If some kind soul could help, I'd appreciate it. :-) The HOWTO > instructions don't seem to work correctly (but more than likely, my > lack of understanding is at fault), so I plea for help. :-) You don't say which HOWTO, but the IP-Masquerade mini-HOWTO is excellent. Print that, print the ip

Re: IP Firewalling/Forwarding baffles me

1998-09-16 Thread Dale E. Martin
The missing link for me was that if you're using "standard" linux firewalling, which is packet filtering, you _need_ ip forwarding enabled. (The HOWTO says don't enable it, but that's for TIS proxying firewalls - not what we're talking about here.) Also, for ipchains at least, order counts. You