On Thursday 08 July 2004 1:00 pm, Peter Marshall wrote: > Hey guys, I know this sounds stupid, but I can not seem to get the value of > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to be 1 after boot. I tried putting the echo > 1 > /pro...../ip_forward in my iptables script .... (BTW, I have a bash > script with my rules in it and a startup script in rc2.d that calls it) If you have done that and it's still ending up as 0 afterwards, then something else on your system must be writing 0 to it without you knowing. Try doing a grep on everything in /etc downwards for ip_forward to see if ytou can find some other script which is messing you about: grep -ri ip_forward /etc Regards, Antony. -- This email was created using 100% recycled electrons. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.