Re: routing snafus

["Henri J. Schlereth" <henris neandertal org>]

> > > when I do route add default gw 206.211.90.10 eth0 I get a message:
> > > 
> > > SIOCADDRT: file exists
> > > 
> > 
> > look in /etc/sysconfig/network it should resemble this
> > NETWORKING=yes
> > FORWARD_IPV4=false
> > HOSTNAME=shonjir.neandertal.org
> > DOMAINNAME=neandertal.org
> > GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
> > GATEWAYDEV=eth0
> > 
> 
> Two questions on this that are a little unrelated...what happens if you've
> got FORWARD_IPV4="yes" and no defined DOMAINNAME?
> 
The IP packets from other machines are passed thru, the example would 
be that a router/firewall connected to the Internet would have FORWARD_IPV4="yes" and with ipchains you would masquerade all packets as if they came from
the firewall/router.
no defined domainname means the machine defaults to localhost






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