Re: Firewall-troubleshooting

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KC wrote:
> Hi
>
> I need help understanding what goes wrong in this script. I cannot ping
> anyone and cannot resolve as well. In fact I believe the only thing I can
> get is an ip address from my isp's dhcp server.
>
> Best Regards
>
> kc
>
> ## FIREWALL ##
>

<snip>

>
> ## Show Internal and External Addresses and enable forwarding
>
> echo "External IP " $IPADDR
> echo "Internal IP " $INTERNAL_IP
> #echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>

You need to remove the "#" in front of echo "1" >
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

The firewall will not be able to forward traffic unless that command is run.

HTH

Regards,

Dave

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