Re: ip_forward still set to 0

[Wensong Zhang <wensong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:24 99-1-7 -0800, Eddie Shi wrote:
>Hi,
>  I set up one linux virtual server here and it works . The only problem
>I encountered was
>  my /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward still has 0 in the file. I am using
>Redhat 5.1 and brought a new 2.0.35 kernel to integrate virtual server
>to it. I have to manually modify ip_forward to 1.
>

If you like to use the GUI tool on RedHat-5.1, run the Control-Panel, then
choose the Network Configurator, enable the "IPv4 Network Packets
Forwarding" option in the Routing table.

If not, vi the /etc/sysconfig/network and set
        FORWARD_IPV4=yes

Finally, reboot your Linux box.

>  During the boot, I saw something like " set ip_forward off " ,"
>syscntl: failed ". Looks to me that the system tried to turn ip_forward
>on but failed. My system has two interface cards running on Pentium X86
>platform.
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>  Thanks ahead for your attention.
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>Eddie
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