Re: Kernel Data structure for Routing Table

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On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 15:31:00 -0000, bunty  wrote:
>   hello,
>      I want to know is there any way to know that whether a Pc is acting as a Router that is /proc/net/ipv4/ip_forward is set to 0 or 1?

Are you aware of the fact, that /proc/net/ipv4/ip_forward is readable?
Just cat it. No need for entering the kernel.

> which structre should i use and is it possible via kernel module?
> that mean i want to write a kernel module to check whether my PC is IP
> packet forwarder or not?

You have the source ;-). Just look where /proc/net/ipv4/ip_forward is
registered and look which function provides it's contents (it's the read
one).

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