RE: [MLUG] IP forwarding

[Adam Procter <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Borders-Wing, Heath Justin (UMC-Student) wrote:

> Thanks for the help, however, I put that file into my computer as
> /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall, and I enabled the options that I thought I should
> enable, and it still isn't working.  One problem that I saw was that I don't
> think that ipchains is installed on my computer.  I believe that its
> supposed to be in the /sbin directory.  However, it isn't there.  I found
> what I think is the gzipped object file:
> /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains.o.gz
> 
> So, I thought, ok, I'll just gunzip it and insmod it.  Well, I got it
> gunzipped just fine, but when I tried to insmod it, I dont think that I was
> successful.  I typed, "insmod -v ipchains.o" and it said, "using ipchains.o
> \n Symbol version prefix '' ".  So I tried it again, and it said the same
> thing plus, "insmod: a module name ipchains already exists"  So I guess I
> got it into the kernel correctly, but how to I use it?
[...]

That looks like the ipchains kernel module -- in addition to that you'll
need the ipchains command.  (On Red Hat 7.1 it's in its own RPM... don't
know about Mandrake.)

Adam Procter
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