[4351] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Detecting IP forwarding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Sep 12 10:22:07 1996
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:50:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Marcos Assis Silva <assis@npd.uel.br>
cc: Ben Elliston <bje@air.net.au>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.sun4.3.91b.-.patched.by.A.960910144843.8536B-100000@npd>
On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Marcos Assis Silva wrote:
> 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 ...
Nope...I have boxes I better have compiled without ip_forwarding, and they
have an ip_forward that looks just like the one on a box that does
forward.
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