[plug] Port Forwarding help

Harry harrymc at decisions-and-designs.com.au
Sun Oct 24 21:39:50 WST 2004


On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:57:39 +0800 "Joong Cho" <joongcho at westnet.com.au> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> How do you enable port forwarding on Debian and what do I when it says Check 
> if you have enabled portforwarding?

For a 2.4.x kernel, to see if it is enabled:
# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
0 means disabled, 1 means enabled

To enable it:
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

To read more and understand, google for:
ip masquerade HOWTO  
and press "I'm feeling lucky"

HTH
Harry

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