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SubjectIP Forwarding
Does anybody know why my 2.1.36x SMP box will "sometimes" do IP-Forwarding
after a boot and sometimes not? When it feels like NOT forwarding, it
is impossible to set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding to "1". It stays
at "2". Other times, it works okay.

If I shut down and remove power, the machine will, perhaps 50% of the
time, come up able to do forwarding. However, if I just reboot after
it refuses to forward, it will NEVER be able to forward!!!! It requires
power OFF to recover.

Another thing, when the /proc file-system gets into this mode, I can't
unmount it. This is after `kill -9 -1` with only the gettys running.

This symptom does not occur with the same kernel on a single pentium
machine, not compiled for SMP. In all other aspects this other machine
is identical except for the IP Address.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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