Re: routing

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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
> 




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