Ubuntu
procps package

sysctl IPv6 forwarding example is incorrect

Bug #76288 reported by Trent Lloyd
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
procps (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Yves Junqueira

Bug Description

Binary package hint: procps

sysctl has some examples of setting forwarding rules, and it is incorrect, the IPv4 is correct but IPv6 says:

#net/ipv6/ip_forward=1

It needs to say:
net/ipv6/conf/all/forwarding=1

Revision history for this message
Yves Junqueira (yves.junqueira) wrote :

This is correct in Feisty (and maybe Edgy?):

# Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv6
#net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding=1

Changed in procps:
assignee: nobody → yves.junqueira
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Martti Kuparinen (mk1970) wrote :

This is NOT fixed in 8.04.1:

# sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf
error: "net.ipv6.ip_forward" is an unknown key

The correct keyword is maybe "net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding".

# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.1"

# dpkg -S /etc/sysctl.conf
procps: /etc/sysctl.conf

# dpkg -l procps
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii procps 1:3.2.7-5ubunt /proc file system utilities

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