Re: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
I put it into /etc/init.d/network but don't think it's a the best place. Could anybody point the better one.
Mikhail.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Leach <bleach@bellsouth.net>
To: Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>
Cc: debian-firewall@lists.debian.org <debian-firewall@lists.debian.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 03:18:04PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
>> Is it correct that I have to set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to 1
>> everytime I boot? Or did I miss a config option?
>_IF_ you are doing this forwarding over a ppp link then you might want
>to create an executable script and put it in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/
>
>You can also put it into one of the networking scripts in /etc/init.d
>but I am not sure which one (off hand) nor what is the proper debian
>way of doing that (I would look for something that is setting up
>ipchains (2.2.x kernel) or ipfw rules (2.0.x kernel).
>
>--best, bill
>
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