[PLUG] redhat 8.0, ip forwarding, routing.

Keith Morse kgmorse at mpcu.com
Thu Nov 7 17:59:48 UTC 2002


On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 gilmanhunt at attbi.com wrote:

> Here's my question: 
> Do I need to enable routing, so that the firewall knows to do the routing to the
> internal network, or is that "covered" under the NAT ?
> 


IN addition to Paul's reply,  note that many of the iptables rule set 
generators out there ensure routing is enabled by setting ip_forward to 1.  
I use a program called fwbuilder extensively and it always includes this 
in the shell script it generates.





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