[H-GEN] IP Masquerading

[Ben Fowler]

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Stephen Thomas wrote:

> Well, I was running the standard RedHat 5 kernel for ages, all I did
> was install ipfwadm and set up the rules...  so my guess is it's
> allready in the kernel.
> 
> My reason (others may vary) for liking the modules is so you can
> insert them and remove them as needed.  (prolly could be replaced
> with, to remove the real audio one cause two different people are
> downloading the same stream to see if they can get an echo effect
> , I dunno, go fig some people :-) (you know who you are btw ;-)
> 
> Stephen Thomas (TheDirector)
> sthomas at wtower.com
> 
> On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 05:05:02PM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Stephen Thomas wrote:
> > 
> > > If you want, you should just be able to insert the modules, though:-)
> > 
> > The masq modules are 'helper' modules.  IE, masq is still needed in the
> > kernel - the helper modules just allow certain protocols to work properly


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I seem to remember something about the default install kernals that came
with Red Hat 4.x didn't have IP masq compiled in by default, which meant
that users who wanted IP masq had to recompile their kernels.

Also, IIRC Red Hat 5.x kernels now include IP masq support, saving the
lucky user that extra step of recompiling before getting everything to
work properly.

I agree with Steve's assertion that modules are good - as opposed to
Windows NT and earlier Unices, users can load and unload parts of the OS
on the fly, however if I remember rightly, IP masq support itself _must_
be compiled into the kernel and not as a module (as opposed to the helper
modules which can be made as modules), perhaps someone would care to
verify this? 


-regards,

Ben.

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