I think he was reading the wrong instructional. As I understood it, Red Hat stopped setting ipchains and started using iptables as the default, starting with RH8. On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, jdow wrote: > He should turn off and uninstall ipchains. > > Then he should turn on iptables and never look back. The performance > of ipchains under 2.4.x kernels leaves a lot to be desired. It is a > pathetic emulation using iptables. > > {^_^} > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Justin Zygmont" <jzygmont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > opps, it is ipchains, I should have read the message for closely, duhh > > > > > > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Justin Zygmont wrote: > > > > > hmm, that looks like ipchains > > > > > > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Ricky Malt wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I am currently using ' Rusty's Three-Line Guide To Masquerading '. > i.e. > > > > # ipchains -P forward DENY > > > > # ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ > > > > # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe