Changing iptables rules

[Clive DaSilva]

Hello William

Thanks for your response. The simplest route is usually the best. I did 
take a look at the iptables manual as well as the latest iptables 
tutorial on freshmeat.net. It outlined some interesting scenarios using 
iptables-save and iptables-restore commands in a similar scenario. I 
guess that this will be my project for the long weekend.

Thanks once again

Clive


William Park wrote:

>On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 08:45:21PM -0400, Clive DaSilva wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello all
>>
>>I am working with a new distro (Mandrake 9.1) trying desperately to 
>>change the default iptables ruleset to allow ip_masquerade so my wife 
>>and daghter can simultaneously surf on a Win98 box attached to my small 
>>network. Are any of you aware of a URL which advises as to how to do 
>>this ?  On my Slackware 7.1 setup, my iptables rules consisted of 
>>perhaps five lines which enabled the ip_masquerade process, but the 
>>iptables rule set here is quite long. I was considering writing a script 
>>which I could enable at bootup which deleted all the generic iptables 
>>rules created by the Mandrake install, and then just add the five lines 
>>which I used to get ip_masq running on my old config.
>>    
>>
>
>Well, then, do that.  To flush 'filter' and 'nat' tables,
>    /usr/sbin/iptables -F
>    /usr/sbin/iptables -t nat -F 
>
>man iptables
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>


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