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From: Fabrice MARIE <fabrice@celestix.com>
To: Denis JULIEN <denis.julien@vupublishing.net>,
	iptables <netfilter@lists.samba.org>
Subject: Re: ip_forward file
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:17:28 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207042217.28812.fabrice@celestix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <839BF5387528D311AD5D00902751CFC301B0418D@HAVASSMX>


Hello,

On Thursday 04 July 2002 21:16, Denis JULIEN wrote:
> Hi,
> In order to validate the routing of my Red hat linux (7.2) I have to do an
> echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward.
> But every time that I restart the network service the ip_forward file
> returns to the "0" value and my server does not route any more.
> How can I do to keep the ip_forward set to "1"?
> (It's my first time on linux..)
> thank in advance
> Denis

If you have a file called /etc/sysctl.conf,
then add the following line in it :

net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

Have a nice day,

Fabrice.
--
Fabrice MARIE
Senior R&D Engineer
Celestix Networks
http://www.celestix.com/

"Silly hacker, root is for administrators"
       -Unknown


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-04 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-04 13:16 ip_forward file Denis JULIEN
2002-07-04 13:16 ` Antony Stone
2002-07-04 14:17 ` Fabrice MARIE [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-04 22:12 George Vieira
2002-07-04 22:45 ` Jan Humme
2002-07-04 23:12 George Vieira
2002-07-05  9:15 ` R. Sterenborg

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