[ale] NAT Help needed!

[Denny Chambers]

On a 2.4 kernel /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward had to be set to 1 for the 
router to forward packets. I assume this is the same on a 2.6 kernel.

cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward if you get 0, then:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Philip Polstra wrote:

>Our router went down yesterday at the high school so we decided to set
>up a FC3 machine to be the new router.  I can't get it to forward
>packets from other machines in the network despite following the
>instructions to set up the router with NAT exactly.  I have the
>ability to connect to the internet and the local network on the router
>machine, but nothing gets forwarded.
>
>I'm using iptables.  Any ideas?
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