hey
ive got the MANDRAKE 9.0
my routing works fine


next
ive edited the shorewall rules
and DNAT net loc:192.168.1.2 tcp 5000,5001,5002,5003,5004,5005,5006,5007,5008,5009,5010
this is ment 2 forward these ports
ok
allirhgt
it seems 2 be wroking
i restart shorewall
shorewall restart
still not forwarding
i restaert my whole box
the routing is now disabled
now

i check drakconf
a reanble routng
it wont work
i reconfigure it
routing is again working
but the line ive added to shoreall rules goes away

some told me 2 do like console

iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 5000 -j DNAT --to 192.168.1.2:5010

this is finally forwarding my ports
!!!!

but every tiem i reboot my \linux box
this line goes away
and i seemk 2 have 2 retype in
what r some commands 2 add it to the startup script

also please tell me f there is a better way 2 forward ports
cuz i'm ,lost
did mandrake modify the shorewall
so it wont forward ports

please help me thnx alot!!!!

you need to put those "iptables" commands in a bash script and call it from your rc.local so that its executed every time at boot.

Something like this in a file called rc.firewall....
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#!/bin/sh
insmod ip_tables

echo " Enabling IPFORWARDING ... "
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

#Add your commands below here

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Put all that in a file called rc.firewall, chmod 744 on it, put it in /etc/rc.d/ then add this line to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local/

sh /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall


-KevinJ

whats thge best way 2 forward ports in mandrake linux

hey
ive looked
i can only find
/etc/rc.d/

but there is no rc.firewall isn there
i am logged in as root
thn x

No.. you have to make an rc.firewall

-Kevin

guess what
the forwarding wont work anymore
from when ive rebooted the box

what does your rc.firewall and rc.local files look like?

what are the permissions on rc.firewall?

-KevinJ