package: release.debian.org ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: Slight hiccup for etch users with the new linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf Date: Tuesday 02 September 2008 14:43 From: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org, project-etchnahalf@teams.debian.net Cc: John Winters <john@sinodun.org.uk> Hi John, thanks for your bugreport. Full quote for the benefit of the etchnhalf mailinglist: On Friday 15 August 2008 16:37, John Winters wrote: > I put the new etch-and-a-half kernel on my N2100 today to cure its > slight NFS problems. All seemed well at first until I realised that it > was no longer functioning as a router. > > After a bit of research I discovered the problem. There's an > outstanding bug in procps in etch (fixed in lenny) which doesn't > manifest itself as long as you're running 2.6.18 but does once you > switch to 2.6.24. > > To fix it, edit /etc/sysctl.conf and change: > > net.ipv4.conf.default.forwarding=1 > > to > > net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 > > I mention it just to save anyone else from having to do the same research. As I see it, there are two ways to solve this: a.) create a procps-etchnhalf package (IMHO ugly and not really saving us from b anyway) or b.) document this in http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/etchnhalf Or is the above report bogus? I havent confirmed it, but then I don't have a reason to disbelieve it neither. regards, Holger -------------------------------------------------------
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