On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, jac--no-spam wrote:

>    Red Hat has a rather different tree of configuration files than some
> other Linux distributions.  The unique stuff is mostly under
>        /etc/sysconfig/
>    Documentation files for this ship with recent versions of RH, and are
> in the latest User's Guide. 
>    One important file is /etc/sysconfig/network.  It contains the line
>        FORWARD_IPV4=false
>    Possibly changing this line might have the same effect as the echo
> command mentioned in recent postings to get Masq working under RH 5.0.  I
> haven't tried it yet. 

        Bingo!  Two points for Jack...
        Changing this to true (more accurately, to anything other than
"no" or "false") enables packet forwarding on RH51.  For reference, try:
less /etc/rc.d/init.d/network   and search for FORWARD_IPV4.
        Thanks for finding that; it's much easier to change this one value
in /etc/sysconfig/network than add all those lines to rc.local.  Thanks.
        Cheers,
        - Bill

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