How do I set it up so that the ip_forward is set permanently, when I
reboot it sets it back to 0. Also if I set the ip_forward to 1 am I
using the zebra program or am I using the O/S
Thanks for your help
Richard Tracy
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 23:09, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> Am Fr, den 27.02.2004 schrieb linux server um 06:45:
>> For some reason I am having a tough time getting my linux server to act
>> as a router. Can someone give me some basic instructions so that I can
>> figure out what I am missing
>
> You should ive some information about the task the route has to perform:
> - routing between two offfical standard networks
> - routing from a private network (home/office) with adress translation
> - what type of networks (ethernet - ethernet / cable - ethernet / ...)
> - firewall requirements
>
> As a first information you may study
>
http://www.linuxguruz.com/iptables/howto/2.4routing.html
>
> Peter
for just having basic routing functions, check in /proc/sys/net/ipv4
whether your ip_forward is set to 1. if no, do echo 1 > ip_forward and
your fedora box should immediately handle as a router.
check with /sbin/route, whether your routes to your other networks are set
clearly, specially the default gateway.
as mentionned above, this does just routing between 2 tcp/ip-networks, no
masquerading/NAT and other security issues. To configure this out easily
and quickly i could recommend firestarter.
HTH
Roger