[ale] routing and firewalls question

[Chris Ness]

chrisf at computone.com wrote:
> 
> If the internal network is on a priavte IP scheme,  You'll never be
> able to ping Internet.  But you should be able to ping router if
> you use approiate route commands and use IP_FORWARDING.  Also
> you can set up a web server on the Linux machine and set it up
> to allow all PC's internally to proxy.
> 

???

Then howcome I can ping outside addresses from inside my masqueraded
ethernet?
Am I doing something wrong? I figured it was because I had ICMP
masquerading compiled into the kernel.

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