Re: How to check options compiled into the kernel 1.2.13

jag@csrrltrd.ren.nic.in
Mon, 17 Feb 1997 14:25:23 +0530

On Sat, 15 Feb 1997 M Shariful Anam <ren!triton.kaifnet.com!shuman> wrote in:

> On Sat, 15 Feb 1997 jag@csrrltrd.ren.nic.in wrote:
> | But Is there a way to check wether IP forwading is enabled in the kernel or
> | not?
>
> cat /proc/net/snmp | grep -A2 Forward | head -2 | cut -f2 -d' '
>
> If you get:
> Forwarding
> 1
> then forwarding is enabled, if 0 then not.
>
Then what is this stuff for

echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding

I don't have a sys directory under my proc directory(file system)

Jagannathan.R

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