Fedora as a Router

Paul Morgan paul.morgan at jumanjihouse.com
Thu Mar 18 15:26:12 UTC 2004


On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 08:43:39AM -0500, jludwig wrote:
> All linux boxes with 2.4 kernels set up about the same.
> 1) Set /etc/sysctl.conf line net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

don't forget to run `sysctl -p` after updating /etc/sysctl.conf

> 2) Modify your static routes to reflect your network(s)

If you have a simple network, the routes will be set up for you
automatically. It's the bgp stuff that will need config'd and then
only if you have those requirements. 

You may want to look at advanced routing (iproute2):
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/





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