Re: IP forwarding

["Michael W. Holdeman" <ptfd9100@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	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...
 
I just use the pppd deamon to connect itself and set the timeout real high
(1800 min.'s i think) and it works like a charm from all my Linux and Win
machines on teh lan!

	Mike





>On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Scott Cleveland wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> 	I have taken the plunge.  I am discovering the world of linux networking.  
> Adam thanks for your response, I figured out that my IP address were not 
> quite right.  Also I did not have FTP server installed on either machine so 
> I could not ftp to a particular system.
> 
> 	I am at the point where I can ping from machine to machine.
> I can rlogin to each computer and I can get on the internet with one 
> computer.
> 
> I want to set up IP masquerading to share an internet connection
> 
> According to a book I have, I have to "Enable IP forwarding in the kernel by 
> executing  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward  "
> 
> When I try this I get the message "bash:/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: 
> Permission denied"
> 
> I check the permissions on this file and they are:
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  root
> 
> It looks like this is an empty file (0 bytes).  I have checked my other 
> system and this file looks the same there.  If I understand this 
> documentation correctly, this should be a file with something in it.
> 
> I have tried executing this file as root and got the same errors.
> 
> If this file is messed up, can anyone e-mail me this file?
> 
> Or tell me what I am doing wrong?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Scott A. Cleveland
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