Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
>>>> Azeez, what you need is not trite retorts from resident list
>> imbeciles (see Bill's response below), but rather to employ an
>> iptables firewall application/script. There are numerous available
>> to meet any need from simple to enterprise-capable. Firestarter,
>> Shorewall, and I believe there is a basic firewall configuration
>> utility in the distro. The web-based firewall gui in Webmin provides
>> a very simple rudimentary funtion for this. There are many others.
> It might be as simple as:
> modprobe iptable_nat
> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
> but if you have to ask the question, you might be better off with one of
> the appliance systems that do this for you along with a lot of other
> things - like SME server or Clarkconnect.
>
Strange - I don't remember writing any of the text attributed to me.
Are you sure you got the quote correct Les?
Thunderbird did my quoting - and what I replied to (yours) did not have
any quoting on the parts now 3 levels deep.
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Les Mikesell
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