IP-Forwarding
Robert Spangler
bms at zoominternet.net
Sat Jul 9 03:24:04 UTC 2005
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On Friday 08 July 2005 23:02, Eric Hines wrote:
> I'm running FC3 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 on a server motherboard with 2 NICs.
> I've been advised that to have IP forwarding (e.g., between subnets off
> those NICs (I'll add a third NIC for Internet access), I must add the
> command
>
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
Edit sysctl.conf and change or add the following:
# Controls IP packet forwarding
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
This will allow you machine to forward packets between interfaces.
> to the /etc/rc.d/boot.local. This person also advises that "I may want
> to do the echo command last and include "0" in the init scripts, since
> it opens up your network for a short time." But he's a SuSE guru, not a
> Fedora Core guru.
If you are looking to block pings then yes
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Regards
Robert
Smile... it increases your face value!
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