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Re: Detecting IP forwarding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Nugent)
Mon Sep 16 23:55:05 1996
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:29:15 +1000
To: assis@npd.uel.br
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Tony Nugent <tony@trishul.sci.gu.edu.au>
Marcos Assis Silva <assis@npd.uel.br> wrote:
> 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| > 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.
> 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 ... :-(((
Actually, you were close. Alan Cox answered this:
cat /proc/net/snmp
(snmp = Simple Network Management Protocol).
I'm not sure if there are any good tools that make some sense of
the all the information that this "file" gives you.
Cheers
Tony
