[plug] forward rules

Bernard Blackham bernard at blackham.com.au
Sun Feb 23 22:02:33 WST 2003


On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:02:28PM +0800, Jon  Miller wrote:
> So what I think I understand is if the packet does not have a
> destination address for the local box it is forwarded only if
> forwarding is turned on.  Is this the same for ipchains?

Correct. ip_forward needs to be turned on, and using ipchains, the
packet has to pass judgement in the INPUT, FORWARD *and* OUTPUT
chains.

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 Bernard Blackham 
 bernard at blackham dot com dot au



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