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From: Herman <Herman@AerospaceSoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Invalid friggen argument
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 07:14:47 -0600
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On Tuesday 14 October 2003 12:04 am, Joel Newkirk wrote:
   Have you checked lsmod, to make sure you have iptable_nat loaded?  If
   not, try "modprobe iptable_nat" then try your rule again.

The trouble was not iptable_nat, but rather iptable_mangle.  It seems that nat 
doesn't work if iptable_mangle is not loaded - who woulda thunkit?

I was mislead by a Rehat script, which stated that it isn't needed for nat, 
but apparently it is indeed.

Cheers,
-- 
Herman