help with network configuration in FC5

[shoemaker]

Hi, we are trying to configurate a fc5 server, we have two network cards installed, one with the Public Ip and the other that provides the signal for the internal network.
Here is the thing...we want to share the internet signal with the network card that has the Private network and we read in another forum about executing /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward and we try that but it says this :
bash : /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward permission denied
and we just dont know why...
we do the "su root" thing to have root permissions but with no luck :eek:

does somebody know about this?
thanx :)

[homey]

You don't seem to have the whole command here....

/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
bash: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: Permission denied

This is the command which I have in my iptables script...

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

[David Becker]

Hi, we are trying to configurate a fc5 server, we have two network cards installed, one with the Public Ip and the other that provides the signal for the internal network.
Here is the thing...we want to share the internet signal with the network card that has the Private network and we read in another forum about executing /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward and we try that but it says this :
bash : /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward permission denied
and we just dont know why...
we do the "su root" thing to have root permissions but with no luck :eek:

try the

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

thing.

[shoemaker]

thanx a lot, it works......... :)

now I'm trying to find the way to configure the eth0 (the network card that has the Public Ip configured) to distribute the internet signal to the eth01 (the network card that has the Private ip configured) in order to redistribute it to my other pc's (they have win xp installed)
hope you can help me, I'm kinda stuck here.. :confused:

[Sal811]

Although your configuration is not difficult to set up with some knowledge of networking, I highly recommend installing a router ( Cheap these days, less than $50) and connect all your PC's to it. Most routers come preconfigured properly use the default. Also it won't be necessary to have your FC5 PC up and running to allow the other pc's to access the Internet. Definetly less headaches.