Technical Question About Ip Forwarding

Draconis

All right the 1000$ question is: can you IP forward packets to an Unix/Linux system which you dont have the root access?

Any help would be <i>greatly</i> appreciated!

ElvenThief

You'll have to have access to the iptables program/command. Doubtful you can get to it without root as iptables just manipulates kernel information.

Dorian_Gray

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Any help would be <i>greatly</i> appreciated!

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<b>To</b> a machine? You can forward packets to anything. Hell if you stuck an ethernet cable in a cat you could forward packets to it (not that it would do much good however). You can easily forward the packets _to_ the machine, but to have the machine do the forwarding you need iptables and root.

Draconis

<!--QuoteBegin-E-Th33ph+Jun 23 2004, 01:28 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (E-Th33ph @ Jun 23 2004, 01:28 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> You'll have to have access to the iptables program/command. Doubtful you can get to it without root as iptables just manipulates kernel information. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yup, i arrived at the same conclusion today. Thanks for the help <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->