Thursday, September 30, 2010

MISCELLANEOUS

IP FORWARDING ON LINUX -

SCENARIO -

server1 - 192.168.1.2  -  2 LAN CARDS
server2 - 10.107.80.1 


Broad Band Link has been connected to server1 on LAN Card1 [eth0] - 192.168.1.2
The second ethernet card [ eth1] is connected to a switch where other computers are connected.

Now edit the file /etc/sysctl.conf and bring changes to the below line there.
#vi /etc/sysctl.conf

#Controls IP Packet Forwarding
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

Save the file and run the below command to enable the changes brought to the file.

# sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf
# service network restart

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