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

lee@brave.com lee at brave.com
Thu Mar 29 13:16:51 CST 2001


On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, m m wrote:

> >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.
>
> I don't think so. for example, Lee, you have intranet setup, and it works,
> did you recompile your kernel has ip_fordward configured in? if you didn't,
> then the RH6.2 already had it configurated in the kernal. you can
> enable/disable by issue
> issuing "echo 1 > ip_foward".

Yes, I have recompiled the kernel and enabled ip forwarding in it for my
home system; but I do not know what the default kernel configuration is
for stock RH kernels.  How can we find out?

-- lee




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