RE: [TCLUG:15059] Strange routing problem

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, McNitt, Jennifer wrote:

> How do I check if ipchains is accepting the packets?
> 
> What if I don't get a 1 returned..then what do I do?
> 
> I'm at work now and will be trying this all out when I get home.  Since I
> can't get e-mail to work at home yet because of the problem , I would like
> to know as much as I can before hand.
> 
> Jen
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward and make sure you get a '1' returned?
> make sure ipchains is accepting forwarded packets?
> 

ipchains -L ; make sure that either forward is set to ACCEPT or that
you've got a rule to transfer the packets through.

If ip_forward is set to 0, do:

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

and then add that to your startup scripts.

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