Connecting Net through Desktop
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Nov 9 05:00:50 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 10:21 +0530, dasd wrote:
> I want to avail the Net (and thus Yum and all) in my laptop through my
> desktop machine. They are connected by LAN.
>
> What would be the best (and SIMPLE) way for me in F7, both my desktop
> and laptop now run F7.
I think that reconfiguring /etc/sysctl.conf to change this entry:
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
To equal "1" is all that you'd need to do to make a permanent change, to
use that machine as a gateway. You might have to play with firewall
rules, too.
--
[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386
Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7.
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