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 _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
