-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 08 July 2005 23:02, Eric Hines wrote: > I'm running FC3 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 on a server motherboard with 2 NICs. > I've been advised that to have IP forwarding (e.g., between subnets off > those NICs (I'll add a third NIC for Internet access), I must add the > command > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Edit sysctl.conf and change or add the following: # Controls IP packet forwarding net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 This will allow you machine to forward packets between interfaces. > to the /etc/rc.d/boot.local. This person also advises that "I may want > to do the echo command last and include "0" in the init scripts, since > it opens up your network for a short time." But he's a SuSE guru, not a > Fedora Core guru. If you are looking to block pings then yes - -- Regards Robert Smile... it increases your face value! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCz0Nf0xJrO8dQYHgRAgu7AJ95tJ7jeW2vO5fK+AJf4yiu+O5Y3QCfQrjv Lyki5T5r2rahNossGWKPdpg= =8Y4y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
