Re: Transparent Proxy on Linux

On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 08:47:59AM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote:
> Duane,
>
> I would first like to thank you for creating the Squid Cache FAQ. However,
> I believe there is an oversight in section 17 Transparent Caching/Proxying.
> Most distributions of Linux have routing disabled by default. Under the
> Linux configuration information it does not mention that you must add this
> line to the startup scripts:
>
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
> It took me a while to realize that this was what was wrong with my setup,
> since I was able to get normal proxying working without having that set.

I have found this to only really be a problem with RedHat, as RH seems to stick a 0
in there at bootup. My slackware machine for example already has a 1 in there.

Greetz, Peter.

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