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NiceGuy
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 Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject: Enabling ICMP Redirects |
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Hello,
I need to enable ICMP Redirects on a linux Box I have set up in my network ... I thought this would be pretty straight forward configuration process ... but it appears that I may be wrong. From what I gather, the only configuration needed in my gentoo box was (I think!!) to:
Edit /etc/sysctl.conf
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#Enable Kernel Forwarding
net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding = 1
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_redirects =1
net.ipv4.conf.all.send_redirects =1
net.ipv4.conf.all.secure_redirects =1
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Then issue the command ....
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prompt@domain$ sysctl -w
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to have the kernel re-read the kernel parameters.
That's it .. again .. from what I can understand and from what I have read ... but the reason I am writing this is because my gentoo box (as you probably have guessed) does not issue the ICMP Rediects at all ... I realize many people have ICMP Rediects disabled, but I do need them enabled ... most cisco routers have this feature enabled .. and my exisitng networking setup, would require them to be enabled as well.
Thanks again for your time
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moocha
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NiceGuy
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Hello all,
Starting to think that the cause of my problem may be with the configuration of iptables (that is installed and runnig on the Gentoo Box) ....
though I am not saying that is it for sure ... regardless I am very much a beginner when it comes to iptables ... could anyone help me to understand/construct a firewall rule that will allow for my Gentoo Box to send the ICMP Redirects as well as recieve them.
I hope that is not asking for too much
Thanks and Take Care |
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