[NTLUG:Discuss] can not bring up all eth* on boot time?

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>I believe you need to do both.  In older versions of
>RedHat you could add a line to /etc/sysconfig/networks
>
>FORWARD_IPV4=yes
>
>Rather than doing the echo 1> .......
>But i'm not sure if that still works.

I don't think so. for example, Lee, you have intranet setup, and it works, 
did you recompile your kernel has ip_fordward configured in? if you didn't, 
then the RH6.2 already had it configurated in the kernal. you can 
enable/disable by issue
issuing "echo 1 > ip_foward".





>
>George
>
>lee at brave.com wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, George E. Lass wrote:
> >
> > > > >As for IP forwarding, are you sure that you have that configured
> > > > >into your kernel?
> > > >
> > > > The box has RH default package/kernal installation.
> > > > I think that should be configured in the kernel. am I right?
> > >
> > > You should be able to determine this by doing:
> > >
> > > ls -l /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> > >
> > > if it is a zero length file then I'd guess forwarding is configured.
> > > if it a 1 byte file then I'd guess it was created when you did echo 1 
> >
> > > ........
> >
> > I too am curious - is forwarding enabled by issuing "echo 1 > ip_foward"
> > only or *must* the kernel be recompiled to enable ip forwarding in
> > addition to having a "1" in your /proc/sys/ipv4/ip_forward file?
> >
> > -- lee
>
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