[CLUE-Tech] turning off routing on a dual homed box

[Jim Ockers]

Sterling, Willard wrote:
> 
> How do I make sure a dual homed Red Hat 7.2 box will not route between
> interfaces?  In Solaris I can touch /etc/norouter but there doesn't seem to
> be anything like that in RH 7.2

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
iptables -t filter -I FORWARD -j REJECT

You could also edit /etc/sysctl.conf and set the ip forwarding to 0 if
it's not already set.

Hope this helps,
Jim

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