Fedora Core 1 & routing.

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Ivo Sarak wrote:

>As there is no text based setup->networking-> network configuration in
>Fedora Core 1 I tried the redhat-config-network.
>It does let me define several network interfaces and routes. Only little
>probem is that if to reboot the box the routes and interfaces are defined,
>but routing is disabled (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward content is 0).
>
>I find it strange that there is no "enable routing" option in
>redhat-config-network as it was in this previous text
>based setup->networking->.
>  
>

i had never seen that this was possible.
i have done it always via  /etc/rc.local  or via my  firewall-script

>Routing will start working if to "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward".
>  
>

other possibilities are

# grep ip_forw /etc/sysctl.conf
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
change it to "1"
# sysctl -p


# redhat-config-proc
network / ip / ip[2] / ip_forwarding
save and activate your configuration

>Is this a bug or does I get it all wrong?
>  
>

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shrek-m