Re: network setting

[sgarcia bak rr com]

In <20020912115827 B19671 asmoweb hqda pentagon mil>, on
09/12/2002 at 07:58 AM,
   "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com> said:

>>`echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ivp4/ip_forward`
>>
>>But that only sticks until the next reboot, by which time you will have
>>completely forgotten about it.  (Might be months or years from now.)  That
>>means the command needs to be in a startup script somewhere.

>Can't you set this by adding a line to /etc/sysconfig/network:

>FORWARD_IPV4=yes

>I seem to recalll that that method is limited to certain kernel versions
>or certain distributions, and that there is another file under
>/etc/sysconfig/ that controls IP forwarding.

Quite possibly.  I know the /proc trick, and I think it's probably pretty
universal.  To borrow from Perl, TMTOWTDI.

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