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From: Fabrice MARIE <fabrice@celestix.com>
Subject: Re: ip_forward file
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:17:28 +0800
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To: Denis JULIEN <denis.julien@vupublishing.net>, iptables <netfilter@lists.samba.org>


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.
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Fabrice MARIE
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Celestix Networks
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