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Article #3887Re: Some questions for the gurus!
From: Michael Shields
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <3t8b2i$345@news.cais.com>, Mike Knott <knott@servint.com> wrote: > I just read both posts and I think that what has been said is not entirely > accurate. I do not think that you need to have IP forwarding compiled into > your kernel if all you want is for the IP packets from you work station to > get to the internet. Yes, it is, unless you use an application proxy (a firewalling technique). Most people won't. > In other words: > If you want to be able to pine a machine on the internet from a novell (or > other) workstation, and an Linux box is your gateway to the internet through > either SLIP, PPP or direct ethernet (or any other method), it is not necessary > for the Linux box to have IP forwarding compiled into the kernel. This may be true for ping only, because ping doesn't use IP -- it uses ICMP. -- Shields.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11663c,e43d544b6071230b X-Google-Attributes: gid11663c,public From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields) Subject: Re: Some questions for the gurus! Date: 1995/07/03 Message-ID: <3t9ne4$i2v@yage.tembel.org> X-Deja-AN: 105676777 references: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950630191430.28298B-100000@info.irex.org> <3t4fe0$o4b@clarknet.clark.net> <3t8b2i$345@news.cais.com> organization: Tembel's Hedonic Commune nntp-posting-user: shields newsgroups: dc.org.linux-users