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Re: Detecting IP forwarding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcos Assis Silva)
Thu Sep 12 03:34:21 1996
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 14:51:39 -0300 (EST)
From: Marcos Assis Silva <assis@npd.uel.br>
To: Ben Elliston <bje@air.net.au>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.960910234659.2713A-100000@mailhub.air.net.au>
On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Ben Elliston wrote:
|o| Can anyone tell me if there's an easy way of detecting if a kernel has
|o| been compiled to do IP forwarding?
|o|
Hmmmm ... What about looking into /proc/net? If there's a ip-forward
in there the chances that the kernel supports it are very high. Am I wrong?
(I'm not 100% sure about this, just 99,99%). Best regards ...
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