On Fri, June 10, 2005 23:22, Judd Vinet said:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:59:01PM +0200, Christer Solskogen wrote:
>> > # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
>> > # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>>
>> Is this really needed? Networking works nicely at my place without it.
>>
>
> I think so.  Unless you have those rules already in place from a
> previous iptables setup.  A linux system doesn't usually forward packets
> by default.  Without these lines, I can talk to the host OS, but I can't
> get out to the internet.
>

Wierd. I havent tried talking to my host os, but internet works fine. I
dont even have iptables installed ;-)

-- 
cso



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