> > Has IP forwarding been disabled (e.g. by your init scripts)? Type
> > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> > to find out. 0 implies that forwarding is disabled. To enable it, use
> > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> > To enable it permanently, remove any command in your init scripts
> > which disables it.
>
> Nope, per DEFAULT it is DISABLED. You must explicitely enable it.
> (RFC 1122, host requirements...)
Not in 2.0.35 it isn't.
A couple of weeks back, I asked whether it should default to being
disabled (as per the host requirements RFC), and Alan said that it
probably should be.
Currently, it's only disabled by default in the sense that some
distributions default to disabling it from the init scripts.
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