Re: simple firewall for masquerade

[Juhan Ernits <juhan@cc.ioc.ee>]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Joakim Roubert wrote:

> It still doesn't work, though... :(
> I haven't found a way of doing verbose debugging, so I haven't really seen
> exactly where the packages go and exacly where they are rejected --
> network traffic between the two computers runs just fine, but when the
> attached computer wants to access the outside world, I have less success.


This is a platform independent comment, but 

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

has usually fixed it for me.

Check the log files in /var/log for rejects, usually they end up getting
logged there.


Regards,

Juhan Ernits