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SubjectRe: IP masquerade: To work or not to work??
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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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