On Friday 28 November 2003 19:56, zynkx wrote: > hi jeff and tanx for answering :) > > i'm sure i have ip forward enabled, since gateway 2 is > working fine and routing packets ok through the lan > and to gateway 1. if it happened not to have ip > forward enabled in gateway 2 i could never do > masquerading from gateway 2 to gateway 1 :) > > isn't that so? :) > Yes. If you're not sure then: "echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" will turn it on. > i think this might be a matter of finding out some > bind tricks to get this over with... i just wanted to > be sure input and output to drop would not have > anything to do with dhcrelay :)) > > i'm gonna test it with no firewalling at all to see > what happens ;)) > I'm afraid I don't have any experience with a configuration like your's but I don't think iptables will have any effect on dhcp requests. Good luck. Jeff