[Ferm] Request for help with port forward

[András Kovács]

Hi Max,

Thanks for your help. I didn't tell I tried double quotes as suggested, but it gave:

    DNAT to $ dest: <--
variable name expected - if you want to concatenate strings, try using double quotes
 failed!

Yes, you are right about the manuals. What should I do? I wanted to avoid installing a non-packaged ferm, I thought whatever version in included in Debian should handle stuff like this...

Thanks.

Andras

-----Original Message-----
From: Max Kellermann [mailto:max at duempel.org] 
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 3:04 PM
To: András Kovács
Cc: ferm at foo-projects.org
Subject: Re: [Ferm] Request for help with port forward

On 2012/01/16 14:40, András Kovács <Andras.Kovacs at teleconnect.hu> wrote:
> Ferm version: 2.0.7-1 (as part of Debian squeeze)
[...]
> variable name expected - if you want to concatenate strings, try using double quotes"
> 
> I thought concatenation would help FERM to understand the syntax:

Try this one:

 DNAT to "$dest:$port_inter";

(Using double quotes)

>     DNAT to @CAT <--
> unknown ferm built-in function"
> 
> Which is weird as documentation is referring to @cat function.

You are using ferm 2.0.7, but you are looking at manual of 2.0.9 or newer.  If you use an outdated ferm version, you should be reading an outdated manual version!

Max