[SunHELP] IP Forwarding again.

Dale Ghent sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Fri Jan 19 10:34:26 CST 2001


On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Steve Pribyl wrote:

| So, I am going to try to refrase my question
| 
| Why would a sun box not route/forward IP traffic?
| Both nic cards have static addresses(I am not using DHCP).
| The default route is set.
| Traffic from the private net gets to the box.
| Traffic can leave the box. 

Because IP forwarding is off by default.

ndd -set /dev/ip ip_forwarding 1

Will turn it on. Be sureto also put  that command line at the end of
/etc/init.d/inet so it will stay after reboots.

/dale




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