On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 19:15, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> Some time ago I had a very long battle with iptables only to discover
> that they were fine all the time - turned out that
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward was 0.  I'm pretty sure I didn't setup
> it like this but I didn't investigate the reasons.  I turned it on,
> added ``FORWARD_IPV4="yes"`` to /etc/sysconfig/network, made sure it's
> enabled when I bring the net up -- and I've been a happy masquerading
> user since (windoze' connection sharing mangled all masqueraded scp
> and cvs, which was more than annoying, Baruch ShePtaranu ;).
> 
[snip]
> Jul 30 16:51:05 zion sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0

Does your /etc/sysctl.conf file has a line like 
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 ? 

Change it to "net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1" and you should be set.

Guy
 


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