Re: Possible /etc/kernel.conf?

Dragon Slayer (ds2@dragonslair.caltech.edu)
15 May 1996 07:31:57 GMT

In article <linux-kernel.Pine.OSF.3.92.960514172346.24776B-100000@afarm-9.sdsc.edu>, Taner Halicioglu <taner@sdsc.edu> wrote:
>On Tue, 14 May 1996, Hartmut Niemann wrote:
>
>Quite true... There really should be a /proc/config, IMHO. I wanted to
>check if I had enabled IP Forwarding on one of my machines the other day,
>and since I had compiled the kernel on another machine (and long since
>blown away the source tree) I had to just recompile a kernel.
>
>How hard would something like this be?

Check /proc/net/snmp. IP forwarding, along with other networking
information is already available. I have a perl script to format it,
but it shouldn't be too hard to decipher by hand. But if someone
wants my crude version, email me.

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