Re: [TCLUG:7915] Linux Not-So-Newbie Problems

[^chewie <chewie@guinness.urw.org>]

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Chris Kesler wrote:

> > - I've attempted to configure IP Masq, firewalling and proxy to
> absolutely no avail. I'm sure what I'm missing is a one-step "hey
> dummy" kind of problem. Help needed...
> 
> If you happen to be using the RedHat distribution, then you need to set
> this line in /etc/sysconfig/network
> 
> FORWARD_IPV4=yes

Or at least make sure that the proc file gets changed to contain the
number '1' instead of '0' in one of your boot scripts.

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


Later!

    ^chewie

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