Ip forward

You might have noticed that /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward keeps getting reset to 0.

There are three places I've found that cause this to happen. First is /etc/network/options. Go in there and change the line ip_forward=no to ip_forward=yes Next is /etc/pmnetconfig/if-down. Comment out the lines

${LOG} "${ECHO} 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" ${ECHO} 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Last and not least, is the binary /usr/bin/PmNetConfigManager. First, make a fake place for it to write to

mount -o remount,rw / mkdir-p /media/cryptofs/fake/sys/net/ipv4 ln -s /media/cryptofs/fake /fake echo 0 >/fake/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward mount -o remount,ro /

Next, patch /usr/bin/PmNetConfigManager so it writes to /fake/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward instead of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward. Just open it up in a hex editor, find that path, and change "proc" to "fake". Make sure you only change those four bytes. You should probably also make sure you have a backup of the original binary. After you replace PmNetConfigManager, restart it.

stop PmNetConfigManager start PmNetConfigManager

Another way to solve this problem is to make /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward innaccessable. As PuffTheMagic_ put it: &lt;PuffTheMagic_&gt; smoofra: mount -o bind /dev/null over ip_forward &lt;PuffTheMagic_&gt; then mount proc in a new directory &lt;PuffTheMagic_&gt; and set it to 1 from that new dir &lt;PuffTheMagic_&gt; ;)