[plug] ipchains

[russ]

Greg Mildenhall wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, russ wrote:
> > Does ipchains need ipfwadm? Does ipfwadm enable something that
> > ipchains needs?
> 
> IPChains does not need ipfwadm. The only thing I can think of that ipfwadm
> (or your ipfwadm scripts) might be enabling is IP-forwarding.
> The /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward file should contain a '1' if it is
> enabled, a '0' otherwise. I'd check that first, but there are probably
> other possibilities I can't think of straight away.
> 
> -Greg

/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward contains nothing. So all I need is to
put a 1 in there and it will work? I suppose there's a flag somewhere
I need to set to have this done at boot. I'll have another poke
around. :)

Thanks