ICS/NAT/packet forwarding won't work

Troy Piggins troy at piggo.com
Tue Jun 6 21:54:17 UTC 2006


* Friday <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> :
> 
> I'm not totally sure on this, but I think you have to put a space in
> your sysctl.conf file:
> 
> net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

The line was already in that file by default (provided by ubuntu at
least), just commented out.  All I did was uncomment it.

> or just echo it into this file:
> 
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Yep, that works too.

Thanks.

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