Routing

George Toft plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Mon, 26 May 2003 06:29:03 -0700


Entelin wrote:
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> I need to configure a linux box to route ip, I thought all i needed to
> do was to turn on ip_forward in /proc. Is ip tables required for this o=
r
> no ?
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> Entelin <entelin@users.sourceforge.net>


iptables is not required to make it a router, but I recommend using
iptables to secure the box (at a minimum).

George
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