Hello, Look the section" --snip-- # --------( Sysctl Tuning - Recommended Parameters )-------- # Turn off IP forwarding by default # (this will be enabled if you require masquerading) if [ -e /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ]; then echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward fi --snip-- The "echo 0" in the "/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" is disabling ip_forwarding -- which is need to forward packets. Change the "echo 0" to "echo 1" :) Michael. On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 21:54:29 -0600 "Lawrence G. Hunsicker" <lhunsicker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, folks: > > I have just used firestarter's wizard to allow access to my web server. > This part of things worked correctly, but in the process my machine > has stopped forwarding and masquerading traffic from machines inside my > firewall to the outside world. All of the interfaces themselves work > correctly. I.e., from inside machines I can ping my server and from the > server I can see the outside world. But I can't see the outside world > from the inside machines. Is there someone out there that can tell me > what I have to do to get IP forwarding and masquerading working again? > > I have attached a copy of my firewall.sh file. > > Many thanks in advance for any help that you can give me. > > -- > Lawrence G. Hunsicker > lhunsicker@xxxxxxxxx > -- Michael Gale Network Administrator Utilitran Corporation
