Matt Neimeyer wrote : hi matt, i think i saw a post with a similar problem as yours. it was suggested that you need to emerge iptables again.
it worked for me. kind regards anupam > Hey all... > > I'm running through the IPMasq setup portion (section 3.4.1) of the > IPMasq How-To at > http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/ipmasq/c-html/index.html > > I've gotten to the line "iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth5 -j > MASQUERADE" in the part about enabling SNAT functionality. eth5 is my > cable modem... Suffice to say that iptables doesn't seem to like that > one... (invalid arguments) > > Any ideas on how to fix that command to make NAT work? > > Also... the /var/lib/iptables/rules-save... is it safe to manually > edit that? And how exactly does that work? Is that just a last state > file? So if I get it working right once I don't need to fiddle with > that? Basically, I'm wondering if I get the one NIC to do NAT properly > if I should just set up all the other NICs manually or whether it > would be quicker to copy the commands in the rules-save file. > > Thanks! > > Matt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
