sysctl question

[leonchik1976]

hi!
i have same issue (question) about sysctl on fedora 13 and rhel 5.5
then i do
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward, i get value=1
but when i check /etc/sysctl.conf, net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0

shouldn't it be consistent?
reboot doesn't resolve the problem

[meton_magis]

they should be consistent. Are you editing the file in /etc/sysctl.conf ?

anything you do to /proc will not survive a reboot. It is not a real filesystem, it is a representation of kernel settings and information.

if you want to turn on ip_forward permanently (across reboots,) edit /etc/sysctl.conf, if you want it temporarily, edit /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

[leonchik1976]

this situation after i installed bothed system, and also after reboot.
sysctl.conf should update /proc/sys, but it doesn't