IP Forwarding problem

[Eric Hendrickson]

Have you activated the FTP masq module?

Try this:

/sbin/insmod ip_masq_ftp



At 05:19 PM 4/11/00 -0400, Mike Szumlinski wrote:
> >You can't ftp from your linux box or you can't ftp from behind your router
> >with a client on a different machine?  And you can't get to any sites or
> >just certain sites?
>
>FTP from behind it. It can FTP just fine. I've noticed that I can't
>really get any FTP connections from behind since I upgraded to Redhat 6.2.
>Things I can do:
>
>Web browsing
>AIM/ICQ
>Timbuktu to an outside computer
>Send/Recieve E-mail (using about 3 accounts)
>Telnet just about anywhere
>
> >Are you using a proxy server (squid) or ip masquerading (ipchains)?
> >(AIM and I think ICQ can both use port 80)
>
>I believe I'm using ipchains, I just used linuxconf to set it up. I have
>the following line in my rc.local file that runs on startup:
>
>/sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.3.0/24 -j MASQ
>
>Did the ipchains implementation change between Redhat 6.1 and 6.2?
>
> >What other things can/can't you do?
>
>Well, everything behind the linux machine is a Mac, and I can't use the
>software update feature (which I have no idea which port it uses).
>However, I could do this before when I had only 1 machine behind the
>linux machine connected with a X-over cable as opposed to 3 behind it now
>with a hub.
>
> >I guess my first instinct is guessing your running a prozy server which
> >doesnt have port 1023 ->23 mapping enabled. Which I dont think really fits
> >the scenario at all from what you stated. =)
>
>Maybe..dunno exactly how to turn that on/off
>
> >Sorry if this sounds dry and a tad confused. its late and im tired which
> >isnt helping much  =)
>
>I'll take help wherever/whenever I can get it, no questions asked.
>
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