Return-Path: Received: from grand-central-station.mit.edu by po11.mit.edu (8.9.2/4.7) id SAA05087; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:12:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (MELBOURNE-CITY-STREET.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.86]) by grand-central-station.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA18743; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:11:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from kikki.mit.edu (KIKKI.MIT.EDU [18.18.1.142]) by melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA03831; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:11:49 -0500 (EST) Received: (from warlord@localhost) by kikki.mit.edu (8.9.3) id SAA25350; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:11:48 -0500 (EST) Sender: warlord@KIKKI.MIT.EDU To: Cc: sipb@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: Linux Firewall HOWTO??? References: <1012077768.3c5314c8a1cfb@webmail.mit.edu> From: Derek Atkins Date: 26 Jan 2002 18:11:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1012077768.3c5314c8a1cfb@webmail.mit.edu> Message-ID: Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii writes: > Since my 50 machines all have their own IP addresses, I do not want to use IP > masquerading. I am running RedHat 7 with kernel version 2.4.7. I'm not sure if I > need to enable IP forwarding. I have not recompiled the kernel with IP > forwarding enabled, but I did try: > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward This should be sufficient. Does this not solve your problem? If not, you may want to check what kind of firewall rules you have installed on your box. > Any help you can give me would be appreciated! > > Thanks, > Ajay Sudan -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord@MIT.EDU PGP key available