Re: ethertap/dummy (for mol) in 2.4.x ?


Subject: Re: ethertap/dummy (for mol) in 2.4.x ?
From: Derrik Pates (dpates@andromeda.dsdk12.net)
Date: Wed Feb 07 2001 - 07:00:02 MST


On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, R Shapiro wrote:

> 3. I added a masquerade rule in iptables
>
> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQUERADE

Looks good to me.

> 4. I configured netdev in molrc to be dummy0

Didd you load the 'sheep_net.o' module, and add the '-sheep' flag on the
netdev: line in molrc?

> It doesn't work, either with dummy or with ethertap. Does anyone at
> all have anything like a recommendation? Has anyone at all actually
> gotten the dummy driver (or the obsolete ethertap driver) to work in
> 2.4.1? Or am I wasting my time even trying?

Can you try

    iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j SNAT \
        --to <external IP address>

instead?

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