IP Forwarding

[Paul Howarth]

Juan L. Pastor wrote:
> My network setup is a Fedora Core 2 (192.168.1.2) and a Windows 2000
> (192.168.1.3) boxes connected to two ports in an ADSL router
> (192.168.1.1). I guess I don't need IP forwarding on my linux machine. I
> know that with the command "echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" I
> can turn it off.
> 
> What is the right place to add this command to keep it on reboot?
> rc.local?
> 
> Can it be turned off through any configuration tool?

Just add a line

net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0

to /etc/sysctl.conf if it's not already there (which it usually is by default).

Paul.