[vpnc-devel] Installing vpnc on a gateway

[Sebastian Kaps]

Hi Maurice!

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:05:34 +0200 you wrote:

> the funny thing with iptables and nat is,
> if you start a ping before entering the -j MASQUERADE line,
> it does (of course) not work. But, if you now (while still
> running this ping) enter the MASQ-Rule, it will _not_ start
> to work, because masquerading is only applied to "new" "connections".
> So only connections started after adding the MASQ-Rule will work.

Okay, that sounds quite logical. But I'm sure when I tried it earlier, I
started vpnc-connect followed by the iptables line and only then tried
to ping one of the university's hosts from my workstation.

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Ciao, Sebastian