On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:35:05 +0100 Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 01:31:56PM +0200, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote: > > The "RedHat (tm)" way of doing this is putting it in /etc/sysctl.conf AFAIK. > > --- cut --- > > # Controls IP packet forwarding > > net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 > Since when is using sysctl considered to be RH-specific? > It is not, AFAIK. it's not even Linux specific, although the names in /etc/sysctl.conf may vary from un*x to the next. richard -- Richard Welty rwelty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security