Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Mar 1998 14:23:05 +0100 | From | ak@muc ... | Subject | Re: ip forwarding question |
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On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 05:09:46AM +0100, Jason Duerstock wrote: > On 9 Mar 1998, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > The reason is that the introduction of ip_forwarding into 2.0.30 was a > > "accident", the patch was never intended for a release kernel. 2.1 had already > > gone its own way. Please note that the semantics are different too: > > 2.1 ip_forward uses the SNMP IPv4 MIB values 1 no routing 2 routing, while > > 2.0 ip_forwarding is just a boolean (0 = no routing, != 0 routing). The 2.1 > > way is "right", while 2.0 was just a quick hack. > > Ungh? By default, it is '2', which seems to mean 'no routing'. Indeed, > my router does not work until I set it to '1'. Is the source backwards, > or is your MIB knowledge backwards? :D
My MIB knowledge was backwards :) You're right.
-A.
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