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
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