From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Massimo Sala <massimo.sala.71@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sysctl, argument parsing, possible bug
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 19:40:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170801194000.68ac99e1@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM_iQpXtHACnD8kmmHd4bcg+Khy5Y0K=HMmc08avTSHov4zN1A@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 14:27:37 -0700
Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Massimo Sala <massimo.sala.71@gmail.com> wrote:
> > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0.100/forwarding
> > 0
> >
> > sysctl net.ipv4.conf.eth0.100.forwarding
> > error: "net.ipv4.conf.eth0.100.forwarding" is an unknown key
> >
>
> Use echo instead, sysctl doesn't understand eth0.100
> is a netdev name, sigh.
sysctl happily accepts / as a separator see man sysctl(8)
PARAMETERS
variable
The name of a key to read from. An example is kernel.ostype. The '/' separator is also
accepted in place of a '.'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-02 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2017-08-01 21:27 ` sysctl, argument parsing, possible bug Cong Wang
2017-08-01 21:34 ` Massimo Sala
2017-08-01 21:54 ` Cong Wang
2017-08-02 21:53 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-08-02 2:40 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-08-08 18:26 Massimo Sala
2017-08-08 19:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
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