On Tue, 16 May 2000, flupke wrote:
> This seems weird... :-(
> What does it say when you try "cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward"?
> If that doesn't give any error, then you must be able to
> "echo 1 >/proc/.../ip_forward" as root.
>
> If it does give an error, Check that the file exists (ls -l
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward) and that the kernel has everything he
> needs. Maybe you have to build a new kernel, but I doubt that this is the
> case. There must be another problem. I don't know which one. :-(
I think I already replied to this but from the HOWTO:
#CRITICAL: Enable IP forwarding since it is disabled by default since
#
# Redhat Users: you may try changing the options in /etc/sysconfig/network
from:
#
# FORWARD_IPV4=false
# to
# FORWARD_IPV4=true
#
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
