Hi,
On Sat, Mar 13, Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
> I just got done upgrading my home network server from SuSE 5.3 to SuSE
> 6.0 and all I can say is what a pain. The upgrade was very smooth and
> everything was working fine after the upgrade expect IP Masquerading. As
> it turned out, I had to go and hand edit "/etc/rc.config" and set
> IP_FORWARD=yes inorder to get things working again. I guess I'm confused
> as to what other way is there to configure this stuff? I don't recall
> seeing any option for IP_FORWARDING in YaST. I had IP Masquerading
> working fine under SuSE 5.2 and it still worked after I upgraded to 5.3.
> It seems like something really changed in SuSE 6.0 with regard to this.
According to the RFCs, a normal computer (not a router) should not forward
IP packages. So basically this has been wrong in earlier version of SuSE
Linux and we have fixed this by defaulting to disabling IP forwarding.
I admit that this should have been better documented.
> What alerted me to this problem that then led to a solution was that
> during bootup, I would see a message stating that IP Forwarding was
> being turned off. After greping around a bit I found that this message
> was being displayed from the "/sbin/init.d/boot" script.
>
> Tony
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