[clug] Virtual Ethernet Interfaces and Routing

Brett Worth brett at worth.id.au
Sat Jun 19 04:17:04 GMT 2004


On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Joel Pearson wrote:

> Anyway, my main question is, do virtual interfaces work that way? and does
> the kernel need to have something enabled to make routing work between
> subnets for other computers?

Do you have IP forwarding turned on?

riven:~ # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
0
riven:~ # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
riven:~ # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
1
riven:~ #

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Brett

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