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Author: Patrick Fleming EA
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Subject: My Router Isn't
On my RH box it's in /etc/init.d/network with a line added to my
/etc/init.d/firewall: cat 1 >/proc....

On 13 Mar 2003, David Mandala wrote:

> 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 <>
> > To:
> > Subject: Re: My Router Isn't
> > Reply-To:
> >
> > 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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