Bug 13093

Summary:	$FORWARD_IPV4 is not analyzed in any initscript
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	sergey
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	6.2	CC:	rvokal
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Description sergey 2000-06-27 06:43:21 UTC

Variable $FORWARD_IPV4 is not analyzed in any initscript.
Documentation on redhat.com said: It should be analyzed in rc.sysinit, but 
you can check this script - it's not analyzed anywhere.
So you can't to enable IP-routing by Linuxconf, because Linuxconf just 
change this variable.

I know how I can enable routing by "echo 1 > ..../ip_forward", but I'd 
like to get official bugfix from RedHat. (I think RedHat Linux 6.1 has the 
same problem).

Thanks,
Sergey Zhukov

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-06-27 15:09:42 UTC

linuxconf has been fixed in rawhide; it's an intentional
behavior change.

Comment 2 Joseph Fannin 2000-10-25 16:18:13 UTC

FORWARD_IPV4 is still present in /etc/sysconfig/network in Red Hat 7.  It needs
to be removed at least, since it's misleading.  Better yet, a comment should be
inserted in its place pointing users to sysctl.conf.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2000-10-25 18:38:00 UTC

Nothing should add it; it probably won't get removed on
upgrade (although the settings should be migrated.)