[NTLUG:Discuss] can not bring up all eth* on boot time?

[George E. Lass]

I believe you need to do both.  In older versions of
RedHat you could add a line to /etc/sysconfig/networks

FORWARD_IPV4=yes

Rather than doing the echo 1> .......
But i'm not sure if that still works.

George

lee at brave.com wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, George E. Lass wrote:
> 
> > > >As for IP forwarding, are you sure that you have that configured
> > > >into your kernel?
> > >
> > > The box has RH default package/kernal installation.
> > > I think that should be configured in the kernel. am I right?
> >
> > You should be able to determine this by doing:
> >
> > ls -l /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> >
> > if it is a zero length file then I'd guess forwarding is configured.
> > if it a 1 byte file then I'd guess it was created when you did echo 1 >
> > ........
> 
> I too am curious - is forwarding enabled by issuing "echo 1 > ip_foward"
> only or *must* the kernel be recompiled to enable ip forwarding in
> addition to having a "1" in your /proc/sys/ipv4/ip_forward file?
> 
> -- lee

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