Riton,
It sounds like the problem that MY Internet Gateway appeared to have
yesterday, in the IP Forwarding may not be turned on.
Please refer below for one of the replies that I got, which lays out the
things to check quite well.
Good Luck,
Neale
----- Original Message -----
From: "Samuel Tesla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Neale Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Gumpish Routing Question
>
> Sounds like the gateway just isn't forwarding packets. What you probably
want
> to do is check
>
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
> It's probably set to zero, so all you need to do is:
>
> # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
> On redhat 5.2 you can add the line
>
> FORWARD_IPV4="yes"
>
> to the file:
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>
> - --
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> Samuel Tesla
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