Re: Fedora Security Policy

[Matthew ...]

Hiya,

There's subtle differences between both of the forward statements though.

net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0

is referring to allowing IP traffic to forward between two networks, be it
virtual or physical.

The IP Tables forwarding rules are more for forwarding traffic into
different IP tables chains to then be dealt with. i.e.
http://jengelh.medozas.de/images/nf-packet-flow.png

This doesn't mean it can't be used to then send the traffic out of another
network port, but to do that you need the  net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
where as sendign it down a different IP tables chain you do not necessarily
need that set.


Hope that made sense :)
Matt


2009/1/20 Mike McGrath <mmcgrath(a)redhat.com&gt;

>  On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Jorge Bras wrote:
>
>  > Hi there,
>  >
>  > in iptables config, why not, change the default forward policy to drop ?
>  > by default ip forwarding is off, but I think is a good practice deny
>  > everything by default, just in case.
>  >
>
>  I could be wrong on this but:
>
>  net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
>
>  listed in 1.2 should cover that.  I'm not sure how its all designed to
>  work.  I just know how it seems to work.
>
>  Its probably not a bad idea to set it in both places though.
>
>         -Mike
>
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