iptables

[Pandemonium]

I've never done anything manually with iptables before, but I need my sheevaplug to nat traffic for vpn clients connected to it.

I'm running cbxbiker's 2.6.30 kernel on ubuntu, and installed openvpn (rc11) and iptables (1.4.1.1) with apt-get.  The openvpn documentation says to issue the following command:

Code:

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.8.0.0/24 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

However, when I connect a client after issuing that command and restarting openvpn, all the client can do is ping the server, but cannot see the public internet.  I'm kinda new at this, but it looks like that chain isn't sticking:

Code:

root@vpnplug1:~# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination   

Any idears?

[Pandemonium]

Sorry for the noobery.  I figured it out.  I knew I was keeping this Linux Server Hacks book handy, even though it's overdue at the library.  After hours of googling and reading man pages, that's where I found the answer.

I needed to preface my iptables command with the following:

Code:

echo "1" /prov/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward