Routing Question

John Rowan rowan at rownetco.com
Wed Mar 10 17:17:37 UTC 2004


Christopher K. Johnson wrote:

> John Rowan wrote:
>
>>   I've reviewed the configs on both the 7.3 and 9.0 to the best of my 
>> abilities but can't figure out why the 9.0 machine won't forward 
>> packets onto the 2 network from 5 or from the 2 network onto the 
>> 172.25 Token Ring.
>
>
>
> Did you turn on ip forwarding?
>
> echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
> To make it persistent edit the line in /etc/sysctl.conf:
> net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
>
> Chris
>
Chris, you're the man.  I can now power off the 7.3 machine until I have 
time to build it out with FC1 or some other distro.

Thanks again!!!







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