ipchains masquerade

[Patrick Cole]

Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 08:05:12AM +1000, bert wrote:

> Hi,
> As I understand it(which is probably not how it is) the timeouts in the 2.4
> kernel are hard coded.  That is they are in the source for ???? network
> module.  Ipchains was designed for the 2.2 kernels, where you could change
> this stuff.  You can always edit the source if you REALLY need to change the
> time outs.  I heard some where that they aren't really important with 2.4 or
> that may have been with iptables.

The reason they aren't important as such is because they're set so high by default.

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