Re: ip_always_defrag

[George Karaolides <george@karaolides.com>]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, John Patton wrote:

> I'm not sure about what ip_always_defrag is meant to return when
> called like that (probably some info that is useful to the
> developers), but you can set it in the following way:
> 
>     echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag

Thanks for the reply.

That is the way I did set it, using echo 1 > ... .

But when I set any other kernel setting,
for example /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward, I can confirm its setting using
cat ... ; it returns 1 or 0 according to whether it has been set or not.

I can't confirm whether /proc/sys/net/ipv4 has been set because cat ... 
returns a varying integer like 76 or -25 instead of 1 or 0; the value
changes every few seconds.  That is my problem.  This is different to all
the other kernel settings.

I need to know for sure whether this setting is enabled or not for
security reasons.

Best regards,

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