routing

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Fri Feb 27 12:14:30 UTC 2004


On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:35:05 +0100 Jos Vos <jos at xos.nl> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 01:31:56PM +0200, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:

> > The "RedHat (tm)" way of doing this is putting it in /etc/sysctl.conf AFAIK.
> > --- cut ---
> > # Controls IP packet forwarding
> > net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

> Since when is using sysctl considered to be RH-specific?
> It is not, AFAIK.

it's not even Linux specific, although the names in /etc/sysctl.conf
may vary from un*x to the next.

richard
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