Re: [cobalt-users] Is port mapping possible with the NAT setup on the Qube2?

[Gordon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 15 May 2000, dr. mikey. wrote:
> i do believe that i will have to give up on trying to get port
> forwarding installed on the qube and go with the hardware solution
> instead.  here's what i have now tried:
> 
> i found the portfwd utility i mentioned previously and with much
> appreciated help from the author (Everton da Silva Marques
> <evertonm@xxxxxxxxxxx>) finally got it to compile on the qube (i first

If it's any consolation, it blows up compiling on a raq2 also, seems to be
doing something in c++ that the compiler doesn't understand...probably
something evil -/

There are a few other proxy programs around, i know simpleproxy builds on
the mips , tho it's not terribly sophisticated....depends what you are
trying to do i guess....

> had to install a utility called flex, and then had to edit the

That's sad...no flex, this means you can't compile the older compielr
either, hmm

> makefile).  unfortunately when i tried to get it running it crashed with
> the error:  Segmentation fault (core dumped).
> everton then suggested i run gdb to help debug it, but gdb isn't
> installed on the qube, and when i tried to compile the source (after

Doesn't work anyhow, strace doesn't either *sigh*

> first installing gzip2 and libtool) it claimed that gdb did not support
> the mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu and refused to compile.
> 
> another suggestion from everton was to update the compiler, so i tried
> to install egcs 1.1.2, which was what he used to develop the portfwd
> utility in the first place.  unfortunately, egcs also claimed it did not

heh, later versions do, but they don't actully build on the mips machine
(sounds kinda like marketing; - we have that now...tho it doesn't work -)

ps: be carefull with proxy's in general, people can access them from the
internet side of the machine if you don't specificlly deny it and they can
bounce stuff through your machine to hide their IP address when doing
evil things -/