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On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Carol Wulfman wrote:
> I got it working. I put a 1 in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward. My
> question is, what exactly does the above do?
It tells the kernel that it should act as an IP router; that is, when
a packet is received whose destination address is not "this machine",
it will forward the packet on to the next hop towards the intended
destination instead of discarding the packet as "intended for
somebody else so I don't care about it".
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