Enabling IP forwarding using Services Port VM for Utility Services

About this task

IP Forwarding is always disabled after an installation, regardless of the mode of deployment. Use the following procedure to enable IP Forwarding.

	Note
	For security reasons, you must always disable IP forwarding after finishing your task.

Start an SSH session.
Log in to Utility Services as admin.
In the command line, perform one of the following:
- To enable IP forwarding, type IP_Forward enable.
- To disable IP forwarding, type IP_Forward disable.
- To view the status of IP forwarding, type IP_Forward status.

IP_Forward enable
Enabling IP Forwarding
Looking for net.ipv4.ip_forward in /etc/sysctl.conf
Status of IP Forwarding
..Enabled