Re: ICMP Maquerading in 2.1.x?

Gerhard Mack (mumford@aimnet.com)
Tue, 26 Aug 1997 13:59:43 -0700 (PDT)


On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

>
> sean@ibasys.net said:
> } Are there plans to support ICMP Masquerading in the near future for
> } the development kernel? It is a very spiffy feature!

Sorry I'm not replying to your original post, I missed it...

I waited around for people to answer my question in the newsgroups about
masquerading in development kernels for almost a year, and no one answered.
I finally found an answer in the alpha-linux mailing lists... you have to
do this:

# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding

to turn on IP forwarding in the dev kernels.

> Well it should be working unless someone broken it :-)
> However its at the same stage as masq in 2.0.1.
>
> There is currently work being done on masq TNG (or whatever), which should
> have a first cut out shortly. That does all the current masq stuff, but
> in a different way (things are tied to the spiffy new hashed socket
> stuff), and will support various new features. I hope that these changes
> will also improve the efficiency, which although not bad, has not been
> optomised as much as the rest of the kernel.
>
> Nigel.

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