[TriLUG] ip_forward questions

[Mike Mueller]

On Monday 29 September 2003 18:31, mhrivnak wrote:
> I suggest chewing on "man iptables" for a while.  Looking at examples helps
> a lot.

Er, no thanks.  I am not doing a masqerade + firewall.  I am doing a dial-in 
server - need to control a box that's not on the net.  All the manuals/howtos 
are quite old (found a 2003 article that still refer to old ppp, modem, 
dialin howtos.  They refer to configuring the kernel for ip forwarding.  This 
has changed and I was wondering about the why and how at the kernel level.  I 
don't really need port forwarding turned on - I will be talking to the server 
- no tthrough the server.  I just found the difference at the kernel level 
and am chasing down the reasons out of curiosity.

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