Hi all, I run SuSe firewals on my gateway machine. I need to call associates in the US pretty frequently.

FromIndia , calls to the US cost about 3 cents a second .

Dialpad is a good option but it needs some changes in the masq rules.. I have appended the instructions for Dialpad to the bottom of this email.. Would some kind soul please tell me what i need to change in my firewall.rc.config . I'm no linux expert ... and wouldn't like to mess with a working setup if i can help it :) Best regards Anurag ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ok so you tried dialpad but you can not hear them ......... first make sure you let the packets in your fire wall use ipchains to allow masq upd ports 51200-51201 and tcp ports 7175 ,51210 im not going to get into the use of ipchains .... then read on ! here is the problem .... ip masq is discarding the packets from diapad.com ---- why, simple! with masq, in order for you to get a packet from someone you must send them a packet on that port and ip ... if you want to know more read the IP-Masquerade HOWTO. So...dial pad is listening on that port ( in your local net ) but due to the fact nothing was sent on that port the linux box doesn't know that...( so they > /dev/null ) o what you want to do is when there are packets on those port send them to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on the local net --- this is called portfw and/or autofw. but how can you tell linux to forward these packets and to what ip ? You will need ipmasqadm( follow the link and get the tool ) ipchains will not do port forwarding!!! and it is NOT part or RH normal dist. nore mandrake or debian so yes you will have to install it !!! this program is a tool much like ipchains Now you can set up port forwarding in one of two ways..... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Port forward ports to 1 pc ( not as choppy on the voice but only one pc can use dialpad) # ipmasqadm portfw -a -P <protocal> -L <real.ip.on.internet> -R <ip.on.local.net> <port_to_forward> # dialpad to 1 pc one local masq net ( add to /etc/rc.d/rc.local) IP_REAL="firewall ip" TOIP_PC="thepcthatwillusedialpadonothersideoffirewall" ipmasqadm portfw -f ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $IP_REAL 51210 -R $TOIP_PC 51210 ipmasqadm portfw -a -P upd -L $IP_REAL 51201 -R $TOIP_PC 51201 ipmasqadm portfw -a -P upd -L $IP_REAL 51200 -R $TOIP_PC 51200 ipmasqadm portfw -ln ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- or auto port forward ( wich can be a little choppy on the voice but any 1 pc at a time can use dialpad ) # dialpad to 1 pc one local masq net ( add to /etc/rc.d/rc.local) /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm autofw -A -v -r upd 51200 51201 -c tcp 7175 /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm autofw -A -v -r tcp 51210 51210 -c tcp 7175 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq