[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Someone on this list wrote recently wondering if > they would need to recompile their kernel inorder > to get ip masquerading working. > > They are using a stock kernel version 2.0.38 that > came with slink and said that when they executed the > command... > > /sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny > > they got the following... > > ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Protocol not available. > > I suggested first using... > > echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > but this did not seem to help. Does the stock kernel > not support ip masquerading or does the problem lie elsewhere. > > TIA
I posted the question a couple weeks ago, only about the default potato kernel, not slink. The response I got at the time was that it does *not* enable ip masquerading and that a new kernel must be compiled. Time to upgrade anyway! ;-) Stan