Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 1997 21:29:44 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | IP Forwarding |
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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.
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