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On Wednesday 07 July 2004 04:57 pm, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> Dear all, |
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> I noticed the other day that recent versions of iptables have |
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> removed ipforwarding support and suggest that the user add |
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> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/forwarding |
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> to /etc/conf.d/local.start to enable IP forwarding. |
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Yes -- if you are curious why, I wrote a small comment in bug 14761. (Az you |
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can close this bug any time...) |
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> Instead of adding that string to local.start, wouldn't it be better |
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> to direct the user to uncomment the appropriate line in |
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> /etc/sysctl.conf? |
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Really, yes, since there has been talk on lkml about removing the /proc |
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interface for doing things like this, in favor of using sysctl, sysfs, or |
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basically anything else. IMHO, our best option is to integrate ALL of the |
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net.ipv4 and net.ipv6 options into the net.* scripts, where they belong; in |
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fact, many net.ipv4.conf options already are in the net scripts, and there is |
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already a bug open for this type of feature (48968). |
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-- mcf |
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