I have a small home network with several machines running woody. One of these is used as a NAT masquerading router connected to my DSL modem.
I have run small home networks with 2.0 and ipfwadm and 2.2 with ipchains, but I have now upgraded my router to the 2.4.18 kernel. This involved changing from ipchains to iptables. I have ipmasq and iptables installed and things appear to be working well, but in studying the IP-Masquerade-HOWTO, I get confused, as what it discusses appears to be significantly different from how a Debian system is configured. For instance, I would like to forward a few ports from my router to a more powerful machine on the network (intuitively I feel that a firewall box should not also function as a server). In the HOWTO it mentions how to set up port forwarding by adding some IPTABLES statements in /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall, but this file does not exist. Is there an equivalent configuration file in Debian? I tried creating a new file in /etc/ipmasq/rules to contain the same statements, but that does not work. I am sure that it is possible, but haven't yet found the magic token enabling me to accomplish this. The comments in etc/default/iptables about not using the init.d script which iptables provides leave me somewhat confused, as well. I also saw that there are several other packages which handle firewalls, such as ferm, firewall-easy and fwbuilder. Do these co-exist with ipmasq or replace it? Any recommendations? Is there any specific user-level documentation available describing firewall/router setup for Debian? Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
