Re: Transparent Proxy on Linux

Peter van Dijk wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 08:47:59AM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote:
> > 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
>
> 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.

Purely OOI, the slightly more "correct" way to change this for a Redhat
system is to edit /etc/sysconfig/network and change FORWARD_IPV4 from false
to true.

Jifl

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