[ale] Inbound port forwarding.

Gary S. Mackay Gary at edisoninfo.com
Wed Aug 30 09:55:40 EDT 2000


Did that. Yes my cable modem is eth0 and the inside NIC is eth1. The masq'ing
is working fine from the inside. I can browse, email, etc., it is just inbound
traffic that is not jumping across the NICs.

Wandered Inn wrote:
> 
> "Gary S. Mackay" wrote:
> >
> > I had this all working just fine with a modem connection to the 'net. I
> > recently installed a cable modem which works great, (except that they block
> > port 80 but that's another story), but can not get the inbound forwarding to
> > work now. I have an application running on an NT box behind the masq'd network
> > that is listening on port 5993. I used that ipmasqadm command to forward that
> > port from the linux box to the NT box. Worked just fine with the modem. Now I
> > can see the packets come in on eth0 and die. I'm guessing I'm missing
> > something that tells the packets to jump across to the eth1 card so they can
> > get to the 192.168.x.x address of the NT box. What am I missing?
> 
> Whatever masq/forwarding you were doing to your ppp0 interface should be
> changed to your cablemodem device, assuming it's a different interface
> device.  Is eth0 your cablemodem device?  (he says displaying his
> ignorance of cablemodems....)
> 
> >
> > - Gary
> >
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