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Re: Some questions about IP Masquerading



It's easy to create one in /etc/init.d and run update-rc.d.

Actually I thought that was only needed for 2.2.x and late 2.1.x kernels.
I'm not using it for ip masquerading with 2.0.36 and am not having any
problems.

Bob

On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:

> 
> Thanks for all your help with these questions.  Much appreciated.
> Just one more query...
> 
> > >4.  The HOWTO says:
> > >
> > > IMPORTANT: IP forwarding is disabled by default since 2.0.34
> > >  kernels, please make sure you enable it by running
> > >         echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 
> > >
> > >This seems a very strange way to enable something.  Does it need to be
> > >done at boot time, or when?  Why is it done like this?
> > 
> > This is the standard way to change kernel variables at run time. It
> > only needs to be done once per boot, and boot time is as good a
> > time as any. rc.local is probably a good choice for this command as
> > well.
> 
> I don't seem to have an rc.local file.  Is there one for Debian linux?
> And if not, does Debian have something else instead?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark.
> 
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