In Alphabetical order:
Gabriel Beitler, [email protected] on providing section 3.3.8 (setting up Novell)
Juan Jose Ciarlante, [email protected] for contributing his work on the IPMASQADM port forward tool, the 2.1.x and 2.2.x kernel code, and the original LooseUDP patch, etc.
Steven Clarke, [email protected] for contributing his IPPORTFW IP port forwarder tool
Andrew Deryabin, [email protected] for contributing his ICQ MASQ module
Ed Doolittle, [email protected] for suggestions to -V option in theipfwadm command for improved security
Matthew Driver, [email protected] for helping extensively on this HOWTO, and providing section 3.3.1 (setting up Windows 95)
Ken Eves, [email protected] for the FAQ that provides invaluable information for this HOWTO
John Hardin, [email protected] for his PPTP and IPSEC forwarding tools
Glenn Lamb, [email protected] for the LooseUDP patch
Ed. Lott, [email protected] for a long list of tested system and software
Nigel Metheringham, [email protected] for contributing his version of the IP Packet Filtering and IP Masquerading HOWTO, which makes this HOWTO a better and in-depth technical document section 4.1, 4.2, and others
Keith Owens, [email protected] for providing an excellent guide on ipfwadm section 4.2 on correction to ipfwadm -deny option which avoids a security hole, and clarified the status of ping over IP Masquerade
Michael Owings, [email protected] for providing the section about CU-SeeMe and Linux IP-Masquerade Teeny How-To
Rob Pelkey, [email protected] for providing section 3.3.6 and 3.3.7 (setting up MacTCP and Open Transport)
Harish Pillay, [email protected] for providing section 4.5 (dial-on-demand using Diald)
Mark Purcell, [email protected] for providing section 4.6 (IPautofw)
David Ranch, [email protected] for maintaining the HOWTO, helping with the Linux IP Masquerade Resource Page, the TrinityOS document, ..., too many to list here :-)
Paul Russell, [email protected] for all his work on IPTABLES, IPCHAINS, the IP Masquerade kernel patches in general, etc. The man is a IP NATing fool!
Ueli Rutishauser, [email protected] providing section 3.3.9 (setting up OS/2 Warp)
Steve Grevemeyer, [email protected] for taking over the IP Masq Applications page from Lee Nevo and updating it to a full DB backend.
Fred Viles, [email protected] for his patches on proper port forarding of FTP.
John B. (Brent) Williams, [email protected] on providing section 3.3.7 (setting up Open Transport)
Enrique Pessoa Xavier, [email protected] the BOOTp setup suggestion
All the users on the IP-MASQ email list, [email protected] for their help and support for all the new Linux MASQ users.
Other code and documentation developers of IP Masquerade for this great feature
Delian Delchev, [email protected]
David DeSimone (FuzzyFox), [email protected]
Jeanette Pauline Middelink, [email protected]
Miquel van Smoorenburg, [email protected]
Jos Vos, [email protected]
And others who I may have failed to mention here (please let me know)
All users sending feedback and suggestions to the mailing list, especially those who reported errors in the document and the clients who are supported and not supported
We apologize if we have omitted any important names, not included information that some fellow users have sent us yet, etc. There were many suggestions and ideas sent but there wasn't enough time to verify and integrate these changes. David Ranch is constantly trying his best to incorporate all of the information sent to me into the HOWTO. I thank you for the effort, and I hope you understand our situation.