On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, John Marr wrote about, Question regarding IP Fowarding:
> Just a quick question. . . .
>
> I want to set up a linux box as a router to get my window and mac online at
> the same time. I believe by default linux mandrake 7.0 has ip fowarding setup.
> My question is regarding the setup of the linux box. Do I need to add ppp0
> "by hand" and set the modem connection up through a script, or can I use a
> program like kppp and still have ip fowarding work?
Its done at boottime on Redhat systems, i belive you need to edit
/etc/sysconfig/network
The define is.
IPFORWARDING=true
Or something simalar.
On the command line you can do;
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
Thats it.
> Thanks for any answers
--
Regards Richard
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