Bug 78404

Summary:	sysctl gives ip_forward a value of 0 right after iptables loads
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <bodywax>
Component:	iptables	Assignee:	Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0
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Hardware:	athlon
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.e3.com.au/firewall/
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Description Need Real Name 2002-11-22 12:56:45 UTC

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Description of problem:
sysctl gives ip_forward a value of 0 right after iptables gives it a value of 1.
I did not have this problem with prior versions of redhat.

Nov 22 04:12:07 tower iptables: Loading kernel modules ...
Nov 22 04:12:07 tower iptables: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
Nov 22 04:12:07 tower iptables: net.ipv4.ip_dynaddr = 1
Nov 22 04:12:08 tower iptables: net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1
Nov 22 04:12:08 tower iptables: Flushing Tables ...
Nov 22 04:12:08 tower iptables: Create and populate custom rule chains ...
Nov 22 04:12:08 tower iptables: Process INPUT chain ...
Nov 22 04:12:08 tower iptables: Process FORWARD chain ...
Nov 22 04:12:08 tower iptables: Process OUTPUT chain ...
Nov 22 04:12:08 tower iptables: Load rules for nat table ...
Nov 22 04:12:08 tower iptables: Load rules for mangle table ...
Nov 22 04:12:08 tower rc: Starting iptables:  succeeded
Nov 22 04:12:08 tower sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
Nov 22 04:12:08 tower sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
Nov 22 04:12:08 tower sysctl: kernel.sysrq = 0
Nov 22 04:12:08 toewr sysctl: kernel.core_uses_pid = 1

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.During the install of redhat 8.0 I selected no firewall.
2.http://www.e3.com.au/firewall/ is were I got the script
3. install docs are inside the script and run the script
4. reboot 
	

Actual Results:  during boot up, sysctl give ip_forward a value of 0 right after
iptables give it a value of 1.

Expected Results:  ip_forward should have a value of 1 after iptables loads

Additional info:

I solved this issue by adding a line in the rc.local to get the gateway to work
correctly.

echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Im not sure if it is a bug but it sure bugs me! hehe

Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2002-11-23 20:21:12 UTC

It's not a bug, because you can choose what sysctl will do. Make sure you set 

  net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

in /etc/sysctl.conf

You can edit it with your favourite editor or with the redhat-config-proc utility.