On Friday 05 July 2002 00:12, George Vieira wrote: > Redhat uses it's /etc/sysconfig/network file to save that stuff.. > > IE.. > > FORWARD_IPV4=yes
Not on all RedHat versions work this way, e.g. NOT on RH 7.1 which I am running today. But I seem to remember it did in RH 6.1; what version are you running? On RedHat 7.1 a "service network stop" (or /etc/init.d/network stop) will disable forwarding, but "service network start" will NOT enable it again (!), unless specified in /etc/sysctl.conf. So if you do a "service network restart" (or /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart) and expect to have a clean network configuration (after messing around or whatever), then your forwarding won't work. This is the reason why I now use /etc/sysctl.conf instead of a line in /etc/rc.local; then everything works fine. Jan Humme.
