On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 10:21 +0530, dasd wrote: > I want to avail the Net (and thus Yum and all) in my laptop through my > desktop machine. They are connected by LAN. > > What would be the best (and SIMPLE) way for me in F7, both my desktop > and laptop now run F7. I think that reconfiguring /etc/sysctl.conf to change this entry: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 To equal "1" is all that you'd need to do to make a permanent change, to use that machine as a gateway. You might have to play with firewall rules, too. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
