I NEED FTP

[jpersons]

After much frustration, I finally got ipmasq working on my Red Hat 7.2. I really need to figure out how to allow ftp on the inside machine. I tried modprobe ip_masq_ftp but that says: Can't locate module ip_masq_ftp.

I have no clue what the difference between ipchains and iptables is but I think I'm using ipchains.

Help is greatly appreciated :)

[jumpedintothefire]

Do a "lsmod" to see which module is loaded.

[jpersons]

Module Size Used by
vfat 9008 0 (autoclean)
fat 31392 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
sb 7760 2 (autoclean)
sb_lib 33680 0 (autoclean) [sb]
uart401 6384 0 (autoclean) [sb_lib]
sound 58624 2 (autoclean) [sb_lib uart401]
soundcore 4208 5 (autoclean) [sb_lib sound]
binfmt_misc 6064 1
iscsi 21664 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 92208 1 [iscsi]
autofs 11232 0 (autoclean) (unused)
3c509 7312 1
8139too 12640 1
appletalk 20016 0 (autoclean)
ipx 16448 0 (autoclean)
ipchains 36000 0
ext3 61936 2
jbd 38976 2 [ext3]

[jumpedintothefire]

Well your running ipchains....
Looking though my 7.1 machine(running iptables), there is a module call ip_nat_ftp.
It is loaded with the iptables stuff, so I don't think it will work for you. You can try to modprobe it in and see if it works. You may have to move to iptables to be able to ftp from behind the firewall. Ipchains in 2.4 kernels disables most of its advanced features, which may be required to do what you want. This might explain the lack of the module being present. I my self would run iptables with a 2.4 kernel.

[jpersons]

No luck with ip_nat_ftp. I guess I'll try using iptables, but I have no clue how. I set it up using a how-to. Anyone know a how-to for iptables?