On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Carl A. Cook wrote:
> Vandoorselaere Yoann (author of MSEC) wrote:
[..]
> > >
> > > And why CAN I ping my firewall's outside interface from an inside
> > > machine, with firewalling, masquarading, & ip_forwarding OFF??!! What's
> >
> > Are you sure ip forwarding is off ?
> > i'm not...
I've snipped it but pretty sure he said he had it on for something else
> > just do :
> >
> > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> >
> > and give me the result back.
> >
What is your default route, right the firewall machine.. your ping the
interface it goes out to the default gateway, the gateway says hey thats
me and sends back a reply, it doesn't actualy forward the packet, it would
do the same thing if it was routed a packet for 127.0.0.x
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