netstat on RedHat 7.2, IP MASQ

[Eric Rossiter]

Brian Densmore wrote:
> 
> Iptables doesn't do ip_masquerade. ip_masquerade was a partial solution
> hack to do
> NAT. Masquerading is accomplished by using the NAT rules.
> 
> You need these rules if you want to masquerade your lan connections to
> the internet.
> iptables -A FORWARD blah
> 
> Brian

any questions one may have on iptables can be answered at:

www.linuxguruz.org/iptables

One line IP masq.  

  #Masquerade from Internal Net to External Net
  $IPTABLES -A POSTROUTING -t nat -o $EXTIF -j MASQUERADE

HTH,
Eric