Kirkwood, David A wrote: > Do I need to enable ip-forwarding for a system to function as an ip > router or is this enabled automatically by routed? If I do need to > manually how do I enable it? If not can I disable it though the routed > or do I just use ipchains / iptables? It can be controlled with: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward or: sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 or, if your system has an /etc/sysctl.conf file, just add: net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 Also, do you actually need to run routed? If you aren't sure, the answer is probably no. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
