[plug] Accessing the net via my firewall
Russ Pitman
rpitman at odyssey.apana.org.au
Sun Nov 11 17:36:25 WST 2001
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 05:01:21PM +0800, connell wrote:
> Russ
> As I understand it, you use ipchains to set up your firewalling, but
> 'ipchains forward' is your masquerading that lets your workstation
> browser's request thru the firewall machine. Unless you have the
> ipchains forward command set, the browser wont make it out regardless of
> whether you have the firewall set or not.
> I am sure someone else will provide a more thorough (and more accurate)
> explanation.
>
> PaulC
>
Agreed, tho I rather expected it to work without a firewall installed,just
at the networking level.
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