On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 09:57:49PM +0800, Joon Guillen wrote:
>
> I have set up a dial-in server in my RH6.2 using mgetty/ppp.
> The client is a Win98 machine. I have enabled the AutoPPP
> function. The Win98 machine was able to connect to the server,
> with the correct IP address, but it can't use the internet.
> Furthermore, it can ping ONLY the server and nothing else. The
> Win98 machine, when connected to the server, has the ff. info
> (winipcfg):
[...]
> How do I correct this problem? As much as possible, I don't
> want to configure the Win98 TCP/IP properties; I want the server
> to do all the stuff for the client.
Check if you have IP forwarding enabled:
# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
Output should be 1. If it's 0, enable with:
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
To have this set every system startup, edit /etc/sysctl.conf, and
change the line:
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
Hope this helps.
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