SUSE 7.1 NAT

[Guest_imported]

I'm trying to connect my other systems to the internet via suse, but how do I configure it.

Suse seems to use it's own stuff. For example I manually set the ip_forward to 1. But after reboot it seems to reset it to 0.

thanx

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

You should remember that the /proc filesystem doesn't really 'exist' so it does not persist across reboots on any flavour of Linux. (try a 'df' on it !).

So you would have to have a script somewhere (perhaps a Suse one that reads a config file) doing the necessary :

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

I think Suse might have it in a script called something like : '/sbin/init.d/masquerade' .

Regards

 

[marsd]

SuSE 7.1 2.2 or 2.4 kernel?

SuSE ships with an excellent firewall
(thanks Marc H and guys) that can do most
of the work for you, much like the PM firewall kit..Your forwarding settings
can be changed easily by going to:
1 yast
2 system administration
3 change configuration file
4 ip_forward ; change value to yes. ; exit
SuSEconfig should run-> then you are done.
As far as nat goes: I strongly sugest using the suse firewall script if you are not familiar with iptables/ipchains.

SuSE is a really choice distro-congrats on
using it!!!