[SLL] Masquerading mystery

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007, Francois Caen wrote:
>On 9/26/07, Rob Sherwood <capveg at cs.umd.edu> wrote:
>> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
>Or do it the right / modern way:
>sysctl and sysctl.conf .

There are valid reasons not to do it that way.  We set that in
our local firewall system, after setting the iptables and NAT
rules, and unset it when turning off the firewall.

Bill
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