Check /etc/sysconfig/network:
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4="yes"
HOSTNAME="yourhostname"
GATEWAY="ip_of_your_ISP_gw"
GATEWAYDEV="ppp0"
Glen Bankston wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> How can I tell if the release version of RH6.1 has packet forwarding
> enabled? I was told it
> does, but:
>
> ipchains -P forward DENY
> ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
> Does not work for me. The Linux box can access ppp0, but no other W98
> client can.
>
> This works on another RH5.1 system:
> ipfwadm -F -f
> ipfwadm -F -p deny
> ipfwadm -F -a masquerade -W ppp0 -s 10.0.2.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0
>
> I keep getting referred to the HOWTO, but for someone new to ipchains, the
> triple interface
> is not as easily understood as a single modem, single eth0 example, which I
> cannot find
> anywhere. :-(
>
> Glen
>
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