Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:59:01 -0500 | From | Neil Moore <> | Subject | Re: IP forwarding broken in 2.1.16 ? |
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> > > I have a machine at work doing IP forwarding for a ppp dial-up connection. > It provides Internet access for me from home, through the company token- > ring network. > > Tonight, I had accidentally left 2.1.16 running on it - and it seems that > forwarding does not work (I checked compile-options - forwarding is enabled). > > I can start a ppp connection to the machine; the machine can talk to both > the "big" network and the ppp network, but no forwarding. tcpdump shows > that the packets do arrive on the forwarding machine (tcpdump doesn't > work on token-ring, unfortunately). > > Rebooting 2.0.27 (identical setup) and IP forwarding works. I suspect it > is related to the new routing code, but if any more information is needed, > feel free to ask. The problem is definitely reproducible.
Try 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding'. I had to do this to get it working. On boot, the value is 2 -- does anyone know what this means here?
-- -Neil Moore http://www.sfhs.floyd.k12.ky.us/~amethyst (finger amethyst@valjean.sfhs.floyd.k12.ky.us for my Geek Code)
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