Guy Teverovsky wrote on 2003-07-31:

> On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 19:15, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> > Some time ago I had a very long battle with iptables only to discover
> > that they were fine all the time - turned out that
> > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward was 0.  I'm pretty sure I didn't setup
> > it like this but I didn't investigate the reasons.  I turned it on,
> > added ``FORWARD_IPV4="yes"`` to /etc/sysconfig/network, made sure it's
> > enabled when I bring the net up -- and I've been a happy masquerading
> > user since (windoze' connection sharing mangled all masqueraded scp
> > and cvs, which was more than annoying, Baruch ShePtaranu ;).
> >
> [snip]
> > Jul 30 16:51:05 zion sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
>
> Does your /etc/sysctl.conf file has a line like
> net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 ?
>
> Change it to "net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1" and you should be set.
>
No, it's already "=1".  Perhaps it was not this but something else; I
guess there is no point guessing more until I see a problem again.

-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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