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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 00:12:04 +0200
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net forwarding
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Topposting ;)

I prefer to use :
	echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
instead of the sysctl variant.. and I do this both "on" and "off" in my
iptables script.. that's where I consider it "fitting"

//Spider


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On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 00:03:04 -0400
Marko Mikulicic <marko@seul.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I didn't see any configuration file where the the ipv4 forwarding can
> be enabled. Where is the better place to do sysctl -w
> net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 ? Should I create a boot script ? Wouldn't be
> better to set a variable in /etc/conf.d/net ?
> 
> --
> Marko
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