On Sun, 9 May 1999, Greg Blakely wrote:
>
> Hello, folks. I am new to the list, so please bear with a few "basic"
> questions.
>
> First, I searched the archives for "IP Forwarding" and didn't find the
> answer to my question...
>
> I am about to take the plunge from a straight TNOS system to one that is
> mainly Linux-AX25 based. As a first step along those lines, I got the
> latest (2.2.5) kernel and the libc6 tools (rpm). All appears to work
> fine, except that now I can't get my sl0 link (formed by slattach) to
> forward packets beyond the kernel.
>
> Now, in the old versions of Linux, there was a compile option named
> IP_FORWARDING, which I always had to compile in every time I upgraded the
> kernel.
Add this to one of your startup scripts.
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
Be sure to peruse /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes if you are running
2.2.x on a 2.0.x distribution. There are other changes you need to make
also.
Bob - wd6dod
