[RULE] Networking with RULE

Ingo Lantschner ingo.lists at vum.at
Fri Oct 8 15:18:38 EEST 2004


On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 01:09:26 -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield  
<gabriel at teuton.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 07 October 2004 14:09, David wrote:
>
>> I can ping eth0 and eth1 but am not able to ping beyond on to the
>> internet
>
> I'm using FC2, so it might differ a little.  This probably has to do
> with your ip_forward switch.
>
> # su
> Password:
> # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> 0
> # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> 1

Shorewall does NOT relay on ip_forward - as soon as shorewall starts, it  
will enable forwarding by itself.

Ingo.



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