Your firewall is basiclly a router. If IP forwarding is turned off then the
firewall won't forward any packets from one interface to another. At boot up
there is a small window of time when the network is up but the firewall policy is
not loaded yet. You don't want to forward packets at this time so IP forwarding
is turned off. Once the firewall policy is loaded, IP forwarding is turned back
on and the packets go on their merry way.
Dan Lundien, CCNA, CCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
AppNet, Inc
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 30 03:23 EDT 2000
> From: "Goh, Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [FW1] IP forwarding status
> Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 14:49:46 +0800
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>
> Hello,
>
> I realised that every time I install the security policy on FW server, the
> IP forwarding status will change to 1. I have to manually change the IP
> forwarding to 0 (ndd -set /dev/ip ip_forwarding 0). I'm running FW v4.0
> build 4094 on solaris. Does anybody know why the status changes to 1? And
> how do I rectify this problem?
>
> Thank you
>
> Regards
> WG
>
>
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