[Shorewall-users] iptables: Invalid argument

Phil Tomson
Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:57:40 -0000

Just tried replacing the ''detect'' with ''-''
for the net ppp0 entry of my
interfaces file and it doidin''t help... the problem persists.


Phil
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Eduardo Ferreira wrote:

> me thinks it depends on the type of service you get.  I use a ADSL
> connection via ppp0 and in my shorewall interfaces file I read:
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> net     ppp0    -       norfc1918,dhcp,routefilter,tcpflags
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> I use ''-'' instead of ''detect'' in the
broadcast column following the
> guidelines of the interface files (and the 3rd example in the same file).
> works here...
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> HIH,
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> Eduardo Ferreira
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> On 10 Sep 2003, Ed Greshko wrote:
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> > On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 16:11, Phil Tomson wrote:
> > >  just tried the uninstall-reinstall idea.  Problem still exists.
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> > > The offending iptables command is this (from the trace):
> > > iptables -t nat -A ppp0_masq -s 255.255.255.255/32 -d 0.0.0.0/0
-j
> > > MASQUERADE
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> > The command you cite above looks rather odd to me....
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> > On my system I see the following...
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> > iptables -t nat -A eth0_masq -s 192.168.1.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j
> MASQUERADE
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> > where 192.168.1.0/24 is the network address of eth1...
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> Hmmmm.... I thought the  255.255.255.255 was a bit odd.
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> Any idea how that number is determined?
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> Phil
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