On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:31:37PM +0300, Ivan Ivanov wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > I set up a small home LAN and subscribed to a local ISP. I dedicated > one of the machines in my LAN to behave as a router and it provides > the other machines with Internet. I did it with the following > commands: > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j MASQUERADE > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > Now I want when I boot the router these two commands to be executed > during boot-time. Where is the most suitable place to add them? > > Thank you for your advice in advance. > > Regards > Ivan /etc/rc.d/rc.local It's the last thing done during boot. There are also some dedicated firewall distros out there, if you have completely dedicated the machine to being a router. Patrick
