On my system I had to change the 0 to 1 to enable IP forwarding.

Rick'


Lee Howard wrote:

> Hi could somebody please explain sysctl to me.  I've read the manpage, but
> that's not very informative.
>
> I believe that it comes in the initscripts rpms, and the new versions
> disable the IPV4 stuff from the /etc/sysconfig/network file and refer you
> to /etc/sysctl.conf, but no matter what changes I make to /etc/sysctl.conf
> nothing occurs on boot by default.  Either I have to run /sbin/sysctl -w
> sysctl.conf in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local, or I have to do something
> equivalent, but I can't get them to start up automagically without that.
>
> Is this the standard way to do it now?  I seem to remember a nice "Enabling
> IPV4  [OK]" on startup before... is that a thing of the past?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Lee Howard
>
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