Re: ip forwarding broken in 2.1.24 ?

Derrik Pates (dpates@Cavern.NMSU.Edu)
Wed, 29 Jan 1997 14:41:03 -0700 (MST)


On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Tuomas Heino wrote:

> ip_forwarding - "SNMP" BOOLEAN
> 2 - disabled (default)
> 1 - enabled
>
> just echo 1>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding ;)
>

If you do a 1> like that, bash will interpret it as a stdout-only catch.
You must either put the 1 in doublequotes or make sure there is a space
between the 1 and the > .

Derrik Pates
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