On Fri, June 13, 2008 4:23 pm, Charlie Farinella said: > You're the second person to phrase it that way, "does the machine know > that it's supposed to route traffic". Showing my ignorance I will ask > how do I make sure it "knows" to do this. I thought running the route > command did that, but apparently there's more. >
I believe somebody already answered that earlier in this thread: sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 Another way to do the same thing (in a root shell): echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/forwarding To do this when not in a root shell: echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/forwarding -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/