Re: packet forwarding

[cassiano <cassianoleal@gmail.com>]

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:29:56PM +0000, Andrew Critchlow wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >  
> > I am trying to set up a debian proxy such as this:
> >  
> > USER--------DEBIAN--------INTERNET
> >  
> > The debian box will have two network cards.
> >  
> > How can I set up the debian box to forward packets between the two networks? Do I have to set up packet forwarding by adding:
> > net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
> > into /etc/sysctl.conf
> >  
> You really want shorewall.  Trust me on this.  Once you have it
> installed, go to http://www.shorewall.net and look under the
> documentation for the two-interface firewall.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto

Speaking of which...

How do I de-activate logging to stdout in shorewall? It´s very annoying 
to have all firewall logged activity popping out on whichever tty I´m 
working on...

Cheers
Cassiano Leal