Re: /etc/sysctl.conf edit not permanent

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Joseph L. Casale wrote:
What exactly did you add to /etc/sysctl.conf?

Do you have any errors when you run "sysctl -p" on the command line as root?

Filipe

Hi,
I added the following to /etc/sysctl.conf:
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
sysctl -p does not show any errors.

So after a #service network restart, I see this:
Shutting down interface eth0:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down loopback interface:  [  OK  ]
Disabling IPv4 packet forwarding:  net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
[  OK  ]
Bringing up loopback interface:  [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0:  [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth1:
Determining IP information for eth1... done.

But a sysctl -p shows the right info after? Is this behavior normal?

sysctl -p reads the /etc/sysctl.conf file and sets whatever options are in there, so if you run that, its just putting back what you've said in sysctl.conf It looks like ip_forward is being reset by /etc/init.d/network when you pass argument STOP or RESTART (with the network STOPPED, how can there be forwarding?) it does look like /etc/init.d/network START reruns any sysctl.conf settings, so its probably turning it back on when the network is (re)started if you're setting it in there.



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