Re: iptables NAT kernel 2.4.20

From: Markus Hosch (madmaximus@web.de)
Date: 02/10/03 

From: Markus Hosch <madmaximus@web.de>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:35:33 +0100

Christian Koch wrote:

> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE
> iptables: Invalid argument
>
> If I change MASQUERADE to ACCEPT, then I got no "Invalid argument" message.
> But I need MASQUERADE.
>
> I hope somebody has an idea.
>
> Thanks.
> Christian
>
>
>

It's just a guess, but i had that problem when my version of iptables
was outdated, so download the latest package from www.netfilter.org,
compile it and then try again.

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