I coulnd't tell you the use of the rp_filter, but I know that I have
already set up several masquerade firewall and never changed its velue. I
only make sure that ip_forward is set to 1
HTH
Flupke
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Victor Richardson wrote:
> I'm setting up a home cable-modem home behind a
> Mandrake 7.1 box, I've
> checked out the MASQ and Firewall HOWTO's and
> understand them. Actually,
> I used them with 6.0. Although, a few things have
> changed since then. I
> also searched the archives and there was only one
> posting that didn't
> answer this basic question;
>
> What does the default entry in /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall
> "echo 1 >
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter" do? Or more
> directly - what is
> rp_filter?
>
> Do I need to include this line in the MASQ/firewall
> rules provided in
> the docs?
>
> Thanks, Victor
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