Re: enable ip_forward at boot up

eric pareja <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Nov 2005 05:59:40 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.philippine.newbies
Organization University of the Philippines Manila
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Noong Sab, Nob 19, 2005 ng 11:56:37PM +0800, sinabi ni Paolo Alexis Falcone:

> > I know this has been answered for other distributions, but none of the
> > answers were for Debian based systems. On Debian, you would edit
> > /etc/network/options and change ip_forwarding=no to ip_forwarding=yes. 
> 
> Note that on newer versions of Debian GNU/Linux
> Sid, /etc/network/options is already deprecated in favor of
> using /etc/sysctl.conf

from /etc/sysctl.conf:

# Be warned that /etc/init.d/procps is executed to set the following
# variables.  However, after that, /etc/init.d/networking sets some
# network options with builtin values.  These values may be overridden
# using /etc/network/options.

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