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Oggie
08-15-2001, 12:09 PM
What I have is ethernet ISP that I want to rute for the internal network (over ETH1). Whatever I tried, seems like it is not working. I am using a dual CPU system with SCSI drives, and IDE RAID 0 (for the SMB services). This pretty much stops me from compiling the Kernel as well. No matter how I compile it, something is wrong, even after I made the image file for modules during the boot. Regardless, I tried with IPChains first. I sat up very simple rules, as I found in one of the HOWTO's. This worked fine... untill my server started freezing, every 10 min or so. Once I removed those IPCHain rules from the rc.local, server works fine. Than I went on with reading the FAQs and HOWTOs... While reading some very usefull stuff on IP-Masquerade-HOWTO that relates to Kernel 2.4.x. Problem is I cannot implement this, even though I use a Kernel (out of the box) with enabled IPv4 and that has the proper programs (as described in HOWTO). I get messages when I am booting the system. Anyone knows maybe of any proggies that can do the routing on my BOX? :) I am totaly lost now.. kernel compile didn't work (the SCSI does not boot, resulting in my /usr being unavailable, and a message that X respawns too fast, disabled for 5 min.), the multiple HOWTOs just make me more confused than I ever was... Is there any hope for RH 7.1 out of the box and IP-Masquerade, and if there is, please tell me how.
Thanks.

Oggie
08-15-2001, 02:12 PM
OH, forgot to mention, the simple solution I used first was also including ip_masq_ftp and irc. Those modules cannot be found on my Linux Installation (not strange since they are not part of 2.4.x kernel). Can't recall right now if it was IPChains or tables though.
I forgot also to mention that I also tried with PMFirewall, but it does not properly support 2.4x kernels so I didn't get anything done with that one either :(