My Router Isn't

Somewhere you have an init script setting up the routing rules at system
startup (they go away at a system restart too), add the line in there so
when the routes are setup the forwarding is turned on too.

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 08:32, George Gambill wrote:
> George,
>
> Per your (and several others) message,
>
> cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward returned a "0".
>
> Per Bill Jonas (thanks bill) echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward fixed it
> for the time. However, after a reboot it goes back to "0".
>
> How do I set this to 1 at start?
>
> Any suggestions
>
> Thanks
>
> George
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:44:08 -0500
> From: George Toft <george@georgetoft.com>
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: My Router Isn't
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>
> George Gambill wrote:
> > =
>
> > Trying to set up a router (RH8) between a 192.168.100.0/255.255.255.0 s=
> ubnet
> > and a 10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0 subnet.
> > =
>
> ... snip ...
> > =
>

> > Using Webmin on the router (gwg) and looking at the firewall, it shows =
> under
> > "packet filtering":
> >         "FORWARD" default "Accept" with no other rules
> >         "INPUT" default "Accept" with no other rules
> >         "OUTPUT" default "Accept" with no other rules
> > =

>
> > Any ideas why I can't ping nowhere (10.1.1.66) from winslow
> > (192.168.100.253)?
> > =
>
> > George
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>
> Hi George,
>
> What is the status of IP Forwarding on the router (gwg)? cat
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
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