Hi

I know this is a daft question, but I hope somebody can give me a direct answer.

I have a Fedora Core 4 box that I want to use as a LAN gateway/firewall. I have a cable connection with only a single IP, so I want to NAT all clients behind the single IP.

I have IPTables and understand that ok, but I cant find a straight answer to how I should setup masquerading... the netfilter wesite says do this

# Load the NAT module (this pulls in all the others).
modprobe iptable_nat

# In the NAT table (-t nat), Append a rule (-A) after routing
# (POSTROUTING) for all packets going out ppp0 (-o ppp0) which says to
# MASQUERADE the connection (-j MASQUERADE).
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE

# Turn on IP forwarding
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

but when I add the iptables line nothing shows up when I "iptables --list" should I see the line there???

Should that work???

Thanks

If you don't mention which table then iptables default to "filter" table
So your "iptables --list" is the same as "iptables -t filter --list"
You can see your rule by running "iptables -t nat --list" (you can put "-L" instead of "--list")

Great ta

Yep, I can see it now...

Thanks very much...