IP forwarding

["Scott Cleveland" <scottacleveland@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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