SainTiss wrote on Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 12:21:18PM +0200 : > > sysctl -e -p /etc/sysctl.conf >/dev/null 2>&1 > because in /etc/sysctl.conf, ip_forward is set to 0 > Now the question remains: what's the point in "enabling ipv4 forwarding" > if the default sysctl.conf will reset it to 0 again? (I haven't modified > sysctl.conf since install)
Carryover from older days. Before sysctl was widely used, the method of enabling IP forwarding was to look in /etc/sysconfig/network and if the forward IPv4 varaiable was set to yes, then you would 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/forwardipv4'. Now the master setting resides in /etc/sysctl.conf, so set it there to be what you need. Good question though, as I've never pondered it before. Blue skies... Todd -- | MandrakeSoft USA | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mandrakesoft.com | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://www.mandrakelinux.com | --unknown origin | Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.0-0.3mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk
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