Re: Forwarding and masquerading got broken

["Lawrence G. Hunsicker" <lhunsicker@mchsi.com>]

Michael Gale said:

Hello,

	Look the section"
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# --------( Sysctl Tuning - Recommended Parameters )--------

# Turn off IP forwarding by default
# (this will be enabled if you require masquerading)

if [ -e /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ]; then
   echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
fi
--snip--

The "echo 0" in the "/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" is disabling 
ip_forwarding -- which is need to forward packets.

Change the "echo 0" to "echo 1"

Mike:

Thanks for the suggestion.  Note, though, that further down in the file 
there is a parallel section cating 1 to the same address to turn on 
kernel forwarding.  I have checked the actual setting after boot up by 
lessing the address, and it is indeed already set to one.  I'll check 
changing this line, but I suspect that this is not where my problem is.

Any other suggestions?


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Lawrence G. Hunsicker
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