Re: packet forwarding

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel Infinity-ltd com>]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 hanfam sprynet com wrote:

> Hi,
> I just installed 7.2 and packet forwarding is not turned off
> I tried adding
> FORWARD_IPV4="yes"
> to /etc/sysconfig/network
> but it doesn't work. How do I get forwarding
> turned back on?
>       Thanks
>       Linda
>
To have it turned on at boot, edit /etc/sysctl.conf, and change
"net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0" to "net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1".

If you want to turn it on after the system is booted, use:
sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

Mikkel
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