I just went through this last weekend when I upgraded my home's network
server. I have a script of ipfwadm commands I had been using since I
first started using SuSe Linux 5.2. I had upgraded to 5.3 and every
thing was still working. It was when I upgraded to 6.0 that my IP
Masquerading quite workgin. All of my local system could ping and
connect to the server by no packets were being routed outside to our
ISP. My solution was to go and hand edit /etc/rc.config and set
"IP_FORWARD=yes". As of SuSE 6.0 it defaults to "no".
I posted this problem to this mailing list and received a reponse.
Apparently for SuSE 6.0 they decided to follow the RFC that states that
a workstation should not automatically do any IP forwarding. I don't
think this was documented any where. I don't mind them following this
RFC and probably for a majority of workstations this new default setting
is the correct thing to do. It's just a pain for those of us that
already had a server system running with IP Masquerading and this little
change breaks an important feature.
joe lerch wrote:
>
> IP masquerading seemed much easier with 5.3. With 6.0, we just
> can't get it working properly, went through the howto's did everything
> we read about and still no good. The ip masquerading module loads at boot
> time, but nothing gets through.
>
> Would someone with a lot of experience please take the time
> to write out the steps to follow to get ip-masqurding working
> with SuSe 6.0? At this point, we have changed so many things
> in an effort to get it working that we may have set something
> wrong. We use wvdial for our dialer, which worked well with
> SuSE 5.3 and ip masqurading, but not sure if that could be
> a problem with 6.0.
>
> Any information that you care to offer will be sincerely appreciated,
> maybe someone could eventually write up some kind of script
> to step people through the process, make it as easy to use as
> In-joy for OS/2 :)
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> joe
>
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