Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: sysctl() considered harmful | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 06 Jan 1998 02:24:28 +0100 |
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Martin von Loewis <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
> No effort has been taking to give those sysctls which lost their > meaning during 2.1 some reasonable implementation. Most notably, > NET_IPV4_FORWARD can probably implemented on top of > NET_IPV4_FORWARDING. One exception: NET_IPV4_DYNADDR is apparently > the same as NET_IPV4_IP_DYNADDR.
The difference between NET_IPV4_FORWARD and NET_IPV4_FORWARDING is that _FORWARD is a simple boolean (0 off, != 0 on), while _FORWARDING uses the numeric values from the IP MIB (1 == off, 2 == on). The reason for this is that _FORWARD was only a cheap hack that was never intended for an official release.
-A.
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