On Mon Aug 14 2000 at 21:13, "Pat Grogan" wrote: > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please, this is email, not the web. Turn off text/html and quoted-UNprintable in your brain-dead outrage excess mailer. > ------=_NextPart_000_0027_01C00634.6D304580 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I am trying to enable UDP ports so that netmeeting will allow packets to = > pass throught my firewalling. I have downloaded and applied ipchains = > 1.3.8-1. I got the following commands that another server uses to allow = > netwmeeting to run fine: > > echo "Starting IPCHAINS for UDP" > /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY > /sbin/ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 10.0.0.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 > > However when I run the first ipchains command I get the following = > message: > > [root@bella1 /root]# /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY > ipchains: Protocol not available > > I no networking guru and would appreciate some assistance. Thanks in = > advance. Turn on routing in the kernel... echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Cheers Tony - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu