I have 2 PCs: one configured as gateway (PC1) and the other one (PC2) configured to use PC1 as gateway. PC1 runs a LFS. It has ip
forwarding enabled (e.g. by echo 'net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1' >> /etc/sysctl.conf).
As far as I understand, I do not need to do anything else to make the kernel
route traffic to and from PC2, right?
No, you need to use iptables to handle NAT/masquerading
Well, it seems that enabling ip forwarding on PC1 is sufficient to route traffice to and from PC2 as the latter can ping hosts on
the Internet and browse web sites. The network configurations is as follows:
PC1 has a single NIC:
IP=172.16.0.3
PREFIX=24
BROADCAST=172.16.0.255
PC2 has a single NIC, too:
IP address = 172.16.0.4
subnet mask = 255.255.255.0
default gateway = 172.16.0.3
iptables have NOT been installed on PC1. So, if PC3 is configured similarly to
PC2, it could too have access to the Internet, right?
And lastly, two more quesions:
-What exactly does ip forwarding mean?
-If I install the iptables service, and use it to configure the kernel not to route traffice for PC3, how can I ensure that the
iptables service gets started before starting networking, so that there won't be a time slice when PC3 will have access to the
Internet?
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