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From: "Taylor, Grant" <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
Subject: sysctl vs. echo > /proc...
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 00:57:30 -0500
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Hey fellow TuX users out there, I have a question for you.

Does any one know the (technical) difference in using sysctl verses echoing values in to the appropriate areas in side of the /proc file system?  Which is the more current (expected in the future) practice?  Any ideas and / or thoughts on this matter would be greatly appreciated.  Consider this very simple and common example:

sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

verses 

echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 



Grant. . . .