[techtalk] Netstat weirdness

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 08:41:00PM +1000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
 Malcolm Tredinnick thought...
> 
> On other distributions, there may be a similar method, but the general
> solution is just to do:
> 
> 	echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> 
> This simply tells the kernel that it is allowed to forward packets (you
> would have had to turn this on for your firewall box, but it may have
> been done magically for you by whatever you used to set up the
> firewall).
> 

The "echo 1 > ... " line is indeed in use on the gateway in the firewall
script, not sure if it is there on the server (both running RH6.2).  I seem to
remember (when using linuxconf) checking the "allow packet forwarding" on the
server but doing it in the config files always seems to be the better route.  

I have found at times that, after modifying a config file with vi, linuxconf
doesn't seem to read back the config from the same file(s).  Does it keep a
database of settings elsewhere or something?

-- 
Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

Domestic Sysadmin :-)