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DateThu, 30 Jan 1997 08:26:48 -0500 (EST)
From"Richard B. Johnson" <>
SubjectRe: ip forwarding broken in 2.1.24 ?
On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Tuomas Heino wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:
> 
> > Hi, It looks like 2.1.24 is not forwarding traffic from my ethernet to
> > the radio port and vice versa. Has anyone else noticed this problem ?
> > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding yields a value of 2
> > 
> from linux/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt :
> 
> ip_forwarding - "SNMP" BOOLEAN
>         2 - disabled (default)
>         1 - enabled
> 
> just echo 1>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding ;)
> 
Well not __quite__!  I encountered the same typo...

echo "1" >proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding  .... or
echo  1  >proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarning  ....
       |_________ space
Otherwise a line-feed (only) went out "stdout" to the "/proc" file-system
and it doesn't complain so you don't get any feedback.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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