How do I set it up so that the ip_forward is set permanently, when I reboot it sets it back to 0. Also if I set the ip_forward to 1 am I using the zebra program or am I using the O/S Thanks for your help Richard Tracy On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 23:09, Roger Grosswiler wrote: > > Am Fr, den 27.02.2004 schrieb linux server um 06:45: > >> For some reason I am having a tough time getting my linux server to act > >> as a router. Can someone give me some basic instructions so that I can > >> figure out what I am missing > > > > You should ive some information about the task the route has to perform: > > - routing between two offfical standard networks > > - routing from a private network (home/office) with adress translation > > - what type of networks (ethernet - ethernet / cable - ethernet / ...) > > - firewall requirements > > > > As a first information you may study > > http://www.linuxguruz.com/iptables/howto/2.4routing.html > > > > Peter > for just having basic routing functions, check in /proc/sys/net/ipv4 > whether your ip_forward is set to 1. if no, do echo 1 > ip_forward and > your fedora box should immediately handle as a router. > > check with /sbin/route, whether your routes to your other networks are set > clearly, specially the default gateway. > > as mentionned above, this does just routing between 2 tcp/ip-networks, no > masquerading/NAT and other security issues. To configure this out easily > and quickly i could recommend firestarter. > > HTH > Roger >
