[ale] home networking difficulties

[Geoffrey]

What's the value of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ??

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Andrew Grimmke wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> For those who have been following along in my saga of
> networking heartache, I have news.
> 
> I can ping!  Yes, You heard me right.  I CAN PING!
> 
> I went looking for different drivers for my NIC.  One
> of them did the trick. 
> 
> Thats the good news.  The bad news is that IP
> forwarding/masquerading does not seem to be working.
> 
> I have added networking and IP forwarding to
> etc/sysconfig/network file.
> 
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME='shakedown'
> FORWARD_IPV4=yes
> 
> I added ip forwarding to the etc/sysctl.conf file
> 
> # Controls IP packet forwarding
> net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
> net.ipv4.ip_always_defrag = 1
> 
> # Controls source route verification
> net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
> 
> I added ip masquerading to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> 
> # 1) Flush the rule tables.
>   /sbin/ipchains -F input
>   /sbin/ipchains -F forward
>   /sbin/ipchains -F output
> # 2) Set the MASQ timings and allow packets in for DHCP
> configuration.
>   /sbin/ipchains -M -S 7200 10 60
>   /sbin/ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -i eth0 -s 0/0 68
> -d 0/0 67 -p udp
> # 3) Deny all forwarding packets except those from
> local network.
> #    Masquerage those.
>   /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY
>   /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ
> # 4) Load forwarding modules for special services.
>   /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp
>   /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio
> 
> did I do something wrong?  Is there anything I missed?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew
> 
> Andrew Grimmke
> Marietta, Georgia
> 
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