Bug 111076 - RFE: enable forwarding
Summary: RFE: enable forwarding
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-config-network
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Harald Hoyer
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Blocks: 87718
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Reported: 2003-11-27 06:32 UTC by Ivo Sarak
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-11-13 11:17:56 UTC
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Description Ivo Sarak 2003-11-27 06:32:15 UTC
Description of problem:
redhat-config-network does let me define several network interfaces
and routes. Only "little" problem is that if to reboot the box the
routes and interfaces are defined, but routing is disabled
(/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward content is 0).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
redhat-config-network-1.3.10-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add couple of LAN cards to the system;
2. Configure these with redhat-config-network;
3. Reboot the box;
  
Actual results:
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward content is 0 and routing is disabled.

Expected results:
Either let me choose explisitly to "enable routing" in
redhat-config-network or do it by default when different
networks/routes are defined.

Additional info:

I asked help from Fedora list and it seems that routing enabling has
never been a simple task and "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward"
in /etc/rc.d/rc.local is standard practice.

Comment 1 Marius Andreiana 2005-05-13 08:29:51 UTC
system-config-network should write to sysctl.conf and on apply/exit should run
"sysctl -p", don't use echo 1 > ...


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