On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Connie Sieh wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Angel Tsankov wrote:
> 
> > > How can I setup an SL 4.2 to write 1 to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward instead of 0 at boot time?
> > 
> > It turns out that I need to apply patch-o-matic to the kernel source and recompile.
> > Where can I find SL sources?
> > 
> 
> I do not think you need to do patch-o-matic to do ip_forward.  If you need 
> the kernel sources they are at 
> 
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4.x/SRPMS/vendor/errata/
> 
> -Connie Sieh
> 

Look at /etc/sysctl.conf.  All you need to do is set

net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

and the kernel will do it for you.

Ken