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Re: Detecting IP forwarding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcos Assis Silva)
Thu Sep 12 13:02:09 1996
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 03:16:29 -0300 (EST)
From: Marcos Assis Silva <assis@npd.uel.br>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
Cc: Ben Elliston <bje@air.net.au>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.960912005004.14881k-100000@inorganic5.fdt.net>
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Jon Lewis wrote:
|o| On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Marcos Assis Silva wrote:
|o| > On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Ben Elliston wrote:
|o| > |o| Can anyone tell me if there's an easy way of detecting if a kernel has
|o| > |o| been compiled to do IP forwarding?
|o| > |o|
|o| >
|o| > Hmmmm ... What about looking into /proc/net? If there's a ip-forward
|o| > in there the chances that the kernel supports it are very high. Am I wrong?
|o| > (I'm not 100% sure about this, just 99,99%). Best regards ...
|o|
|o| Nope...I have boxes I better have compiled without ip_forwarding, and they
|o| have an ip_forward that looks just like the one on a box that does
|o| forward.
|o|
Hi
Well, I hadn't actually finished my sentence which should read: just
99,99% of chances that I'm WRONG :-))) I'm not a Linux (or even Unix expert).
Sorry for the misleading tip and thank you Jon for your feedback. But the
question remains unanswered. Anyone else, please? Bye ... :-(((
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