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Re: i.p. masquerade ...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John D. Hardin)
Tue Dec 1 17:08:11 1998

Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 13:57:56 -0800 (PST)
From: "John D. Hardin" <jhardin@wolfenet.com>
To: Don Hummrich <hummrich@gte.net>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <36645352.73BB@gte.net>
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On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Don Hummrich wrote:

>  my question is this: if i have to compile a new kernel to make this
> happen, is there an easy way to find out what is already in my
> present kernel so that i don't miss something when i set up the new
> one? 

The simplest way to tell is to see whether the file
/proc/net/ip_masquerade exists. If it does, your kernel is compiled to
support masquerading.

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