IP Forwarding IP Forwarding is more commonly reffered to as routing. Routers connect and facilitate communication between multiple networks.

When you try to find site on an outside network, it needs a gateway address. This corresponding to the IP address of a route on LAN. To use RHEL system as router, you should enable IP forwarding in the /etc/sysctl.conf configuration by changing net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 to net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 The changes take effect on the next reboot. Until then ip forwarding can be enabled with the below command echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward You need to enable routing through the firewalls for communication to other networks. # iptables -A FORWARD o wlan0 j ACCEPT # iptables -A FORWARD o virbr0 j ACCEPT # iptables -A FORWARD o virbr1 vimj ACCEPT