Good grief, Holmes! How did you know that? (Apologies to Conan Doyle)
There is no such file as ip_forward on my system. You seem to have hit the
spot. Hmmmm. So how would the init scripts have disabled it? Is this
definitely a Linux-wide file, or is it specific to a particular
implementation. I have Slackware 2.0.27. (BTW, Is that particularly out of
date? I looked at the source repositories and it seems 2.0.34 is about the
latest. I was a bit dubious about upgrading the kernel on its own, as all
the utilities may then be out of date. Is there a way to tell what else
needs upgrading?)
> Do you need to run a routing daemon? If not, running one will only
> make matters more complex, as you risk having it modify your routing
> tables in interesting ways.
Probably not. I'll turn it off and reboot. (Minutes later...) No, it still
doesn't forward across the subnets.
Thanks for the help, I really do appreciate the way you folks respond.
Neil
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