Re: IP forwarding

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I am certianly NO expert on this subject, I stumbled and stumbled,
>then downloaded pmfirewall, ran it and things just took off... I've 
>tuned it a bit now and then, but no trouble for some time now...

In general a full distribution is a "non-optimal" way to make a firewall anyway,
a stand alone mini-distrib is better if you can spare a box.  

pmfirewall is pretty slick though, another one (Build ipchain rules in a GUI)
is: http://icarus.autostock.co.kr/


>>When I try this I get the message "bash:/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward:

RedHat specific info
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The RIGHT WAY to enable ip_forwarding is to edit /etc/sysconfig/network and set
"FORWARD_IPV4=true".  You should not have to edit any rc.* scripts, and doing so
will just be confusing later as most GUI config tools will look at
/etc/sysconfig/network, including the RH control panel.

In fact if you go into the networking section of the RH control panel, select
routing, "Network Packet Forwarding (IPv4)" is a check box option.

Systems and Network Administrator
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