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Re: Alternative to IP Masquerade?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jos Vos)
Fri Nov 8 09:46:48 1996

From: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 15:40:35 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961108142932.006814ec@gdi.net> from "Craig Hoffman" at Nov 8, 96 09:29:32 am
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>         On my Win95 box, I used a program called Wingate that would allow
> other machines to access the internet through my connection.  I've tried
> setting up IP_Masquerade on my Linux install with no luck.  Is there any
> alternative to doing it with Ip_Masq?

No.

But you should be able to set up IP masquerading, given the fact that
many people seem to use it.  Be sure you're using a kernel compiled with
masquerading support (you can check this easily: the pseudo-file
/proc/net/ip_masquerade should exist in that case).

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