[plug] NAT on a linux box

[Daniel Pearson]

Hi Mike,
The reason I want such a script is so that I can just start it and stop it
whenever I want (don't ask why, sometimes I get bored ;) -- possibly even if
I want to shutdown the NAT while i'm connected, etc.. All I need to do now,
is find a IPTables solution, only something very simple that does the job
well -- any ideas?

Cheers,
Daniel Pearson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Holland" <myk at plug.linux.org.au>
To: "Perth LUG" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] NAT on a linux box


> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> >
> > > From all the scripts i've tried, I haven't been able to put any into
> > > /etc/init.d/ (i'm running debian) -- because I want to be able to
> > > stop/start/restart it. Is what i'm trying to achieve unachievable, or
is
> > > there in fact a simple solution to this?
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand the problem.
>
> Nor I. Do you need to control it by the init/rc.d/ mechanism?
>
> > or in /etc/network/inerfaces you can add:
> > ---
> > pre-up   /etc/init.d/firewall start
> > pre-down /etc/init.d/firewall stop
> > ---
> >
> > And any time you restart your ethernet interfaces the ipchains script
will
> > rerun.
>
> Is there any important reason why that should be done, rather than just
> set it up once at boot?