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Linux Networking: Firewalls, NAT, and Netfilter/Check IP forwarding

Inspect whether packet forwarding is enabled.

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Section: Netfilter and Policy Debugging

Check IP forwarding

bash
bash
sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward
Explanation

Inspect whether packet forwarding is enabled.

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