Firefox as local app and networking

[Mickey Moore]

After making the change to /etc/sysctl.conf you will either need to restart networking on the LTSP server or 

sudo sh -c 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward'

Changing the /etc/sysctl.conf will cause the ip_forward to be true on network restarts thereafter.


--- On Mon, 1/12/09, Mickey Moore <tcamdmoore at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mickey Moore <tcamdmoore at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Firefox as local app and networking
> To: "Edubuntu Users Group" <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 7:28 AM
> I have had a similiar problem when I had to plug a Windows
> computer into the same switch as the LTSP's are
> attached. I believe you need to edit /etc/sysctl.conf and
> uncomment as follows:
> 
> 
> # Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for
> IPv4
> net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
> 
> This will allow the terminal server to act as a router for
> machines behind the terminal servers NIC. You will also need
> a static route entry in your internet connected router (I
> assume 192.168.1.1) to route packets for 192.168.0.0 to
> 192.168.1.25. 
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 1/12/09, Gavin McCullagh
> <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: Firefox as local app and networking
> > To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 5:11 AM
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, M Rathburn wrote:
> > 
> > > Edubuntu 8.10 amd64
> > > 
> > > I want to try to run Firefox as a local app on
> thin
> > clients to see if things
> > > can be sped up (right clicks, listboxes, etc.). 
> I
> > have everything set up,
> > > unfortunately the thin client running Firefox
> locally
> > cannot see the
> > > internet.  Here's my config:
> > > 
> > > eth0 - on my local network where our internet is
> > (192.168.1.25, gw
> > > 192.168.1.1).
> > > eth1 - is the thin client network with scheme
> > 192.168.0.254 (server).
> > 
> > The simplest way is probably to run a proxy server
> like
> > squid on the ltsp
> > server, but that will only solve http and ftp.  You
> might
> > want realplayer
> > or something later, so NAT is probably the best
> approach
> > and also will use
> > less resources on the server:
> > 
> > https://wiki.edubuntu.org/ThinClientHowtoNAT
> > 
> > Gavin
> > 
> > 
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