>On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 23:19:51 +0100 >"lux-integ" <lux-in...@btconnect.com> wrote: > > > greetings > > I have a computer with blfs two network cards and a pppmodem. One > card has an ipv6 address the other ipv4 as does the ppp interface. > > I am not bothering with ipv6 for now and for packet-routing I use > the > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward (as in the blfs book ) and > seemingly > get routing for ipv4. However as soon as I enable iptables > forwarding seems to dissappear > > Do I need to enable ipv6 frwarding as well and if so how so? > Ideas on where I am going wrong would be gratfully received. > > thanks in advance. > > luxInteg
Perhaps the firewall is eating the packets? The `filter' table of iptables has the FORWARD chain. If it is empty and set to policy "DROP", then the firewall will drop all packets to be forwarded. -- You don't need an AI for a robot uprising. Humans will do just fine.
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