Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: IP masquerade: To work or not to work?? | Date | Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:54:47 +0100 (BST) |
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> > But when I boot with my new kernel, I was surprised to see " DISABLING > > IPV4 PACKET FORWARDING" among my usual bootin messages! > > This is a RedHat-ism. Somewhere in the init scripts, it does the > equivalent of > > echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > which disables forwarding.
It actually looks at the machine configuration data. The point is to make it a button on "netcfg" so you can use the gui control panels to turn forwarding on/off not recompile.
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