Andi, On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:29:35PM -0700, Erik Lotspeich wrote: > > What I have found indicates that ipchains in Linux 2.2 is not capable of > > 1:1 NAT, but Linux 2.4 is. Is this true? I'd prefer to stick with Linx > > 2.2 because I need H323 over IP Masquerading and I haven't found such an > > add-on module for Linux 2.4. > > Linux 2.2+ supports simple stateless 1:1 NAT with no protocol translation > (with an ip rule ... nat rule; see the iproute2 documentation). This > is simple and efficient, but most people need protocol translation e.g. > to let FTP still work. > > It also supports 1:n NAT in form of masquerading with protocol > translation. HOWTOs exist. > > Linux 2.4+ supports all the same; plus in addition a new NAT module > from netfilter which supports protocol translation and more or less > full M:N NAT. HOWTOs exist. Where? I have not been able to find any comprehensive documentation anywhere. Everything I've found is broken links, outdated, or not helpful. I'd be perfectly happy with static NAT on Linux 2.2. I've printed out hundreds and hundreds pages of HOWTOs, documentation, and more, but have found nothing useful. > > > > > > Is there some clear documentation that associates all of the Linux network > > utilities with kernel version? So far I've come across ipfwadm, > > ipmasqadm, iptables, ipchains, and ip. From what I gather, iptables works > > with Linux 2.4 and ipchains works with Linux 2.2. I know that ipfwadm > > works with the Linux 2.0 kernel, but what about the others? I've > > successfully used ipfwadm with Linux 2.2... > > 2.0: ipfwadm only > 2.2: ipchains only > 2.4: ipfwadm, ipchains, iptables Where does ipnatadm fit in? I have seen a couple of questions by others on this list regarding NAT that have gone unanswered. Is there a person, website, or documentation source that gives a comprehensive answer to these questions? Thanks in advance for your help, Erik. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
