Configuring a FC4 machine as a router

Pablo Heredia L. pablo.heredia at padep.org.bo
Thu Oct 13 20:17:02 UTC 2005



>Dear Colleagues,
>
>I set up a small home LAN and subscribed to a local ISP. I dedicated
>one of the machines in my LAN to behave as a router and it provides
>the other machines with Internet. I did it with the following
>commands:
>iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j MASQUERADE
>echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
>Now I want when I boot the router these two commands to be executed
>during boot-time. Where is the most suitable place to add them? 

>Thank you for your advice in advance.
>
>Regards
>Ivan



Don´t forget to edit /etc/sysctl.conf and set:

# Controls IP packet forwarding
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

Have a nice day.

Pablo.






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