Re: Help for recompilin kernel diverse problems..
Michael Dale Long (mlong@long.dyn.ml.org)
Mon, 5 Oct 1998 23:07:59 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, John Macghley wrote:
>
> I) well, probably there s nothin wrong assumong that the insmod arguments
> at boot time is only referred to the fact that I refused
> some modules support during the "make config: step. But, how come, when I
> get to my newly kernel...supposed to have IP forwarding compiled in, i
> REALLY HAVE NO SIGN OF IP FORWARDING!
> In /etc/syscinfig/network there s no line referrin to IP forwarding.
> And when I run ipfwadm, my system doent recognize it. And there s really no
> sign of IP forwarding any where else..
>
> did my recompilin kernel failed?? How can I have the certitude that IP
> forwardding is really compiled in???
Try 'echo 1 > /proc/net/ip_forward' as root. IIRC, IP Forwarding is shut
off by default.
Hope that helps.
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