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routing help



I need some help with setting up a firewall for a router.  Basically, I
just want to set it up to forward packets on to other machines on the
network.  I read the manpage for ipfwadm, and it looks like ipfwadm -F -p
deny is where I want to begin.  Setting the default rule to deny.  Problem
is, when I do this, I get this error:

ipfwadm:setsockopt failed: Invalid arguement

I've also noticed I don't have a /proc/net/ip-forward, which could be a
big problem.  I've got masquerading compiled into the kernel, but I could
find no option that talked about forwarding.  The 2.0.x kernels had this
as a specific option, but the 2.2.x kernels don't appear to.  Can someone
give me some hints or nudges in the right direction?

								Rob

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