Thanks Lawson. The HOWTO didn't say how to do this.
It worked....thanks.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, John Starkey wrote:
>
> > First..... thanks for the help over the past week. The problem with the
> > modem was IRQ collisions with NIC. I still have to setserial /dev/ttyS2
> > irq 7 as soon as I reboot. (rebooting as per how-to's).
>
> No worry. If I could get a job that paid this well for so little
> effort, I wouldn't bother. :-)
> >
> > So anyway...... I'm trying to chnge the value of
> > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to "1".
> >
> > But nothing will let me write the file. I've changed all the
> permissions
> > associated with that file and still nothing will let me write a file
> > named ip_forward (with the intention of editting it once I've got it).
> >
> Do it like this, John. Didn't it say this in the HOWTO?
>
> Script started on Sun Dec 26 03:58:55 1999
> witsend:~$ su - mfwigc
> Password:
> witsend:~# cd /proc/sys/net/ipv4
> witsend:/proc/sys/net/ipv4# cat ipv_forward
> 0
> witsend:/proc/sys/net/ipv4# echo 1 >ip_forward
> witsend:/proc/sys/net/ipv4# cat ip_forward
> 1
> witsend:/proc/sys/net/ipv4# exit
> logout
> witsend:~$ exit
> Script done on Sun Dec 26 04:00:20 1999
>
> > Is there something special that won't even allow root to chnge the
> value
> > in this file????
>
> It has a length of 1. It won't allow you to write more than 1, because
> that is all the space there is. An editor, if that is what you are
> trying to change it with, will add a trailing newline and make a backup
> by default, neither of which it will be able to do. It is possible to
> do it with joe by disableing backups and force trailing newline OFF, but
> joe won't exit cleanly. It still wants to put newline at the end of the
> line, and can't.
> >
> > I'm running RH6.1 and trying to IP MASQ to be able to iMac > Linux Box
> >
> > Net.....
> >
> > I am referring to
> > http://members.home.net/ipmasq/ipmasq-HOWTO-1.79-6.html
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > John
> >
> I guess you got your system back up? How?
>
> Lawson
>
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