ip forwarding - permission denied

Christoph Georgi christoph.georgi at web.de
Fri Apr 1 05:55:00 UTC 2005


have a look at the permissions for ip_forward or the dir ipv4. Maybe 
something's messed up there?!

regards
.christoph

david wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> In my quest for a net connected Zaurus I seem to have hit a problem.
> I need to enable ip forwarding with the following command.
> 
> sudo echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> 
> But all I get is "permission denied" and I don't understand why. Does
> anyone know what I'm missing here?
> 
> thankyou
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> 

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