[TriLUG] error: permission denied on key'net.ipv4.conf.eth0.mc_forwarding'

[Brian A. Henning]

You didn't mention if you're logged in as root when you issue that command..
If you're not, that would be my first guess for a solution.

Cheers,
~Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
> Behalf Of Ralph Blach
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 5:24 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: [TriLUG] error: permission denied on
> key'net.ipv4.conf.eth0.mc_forwarding'
>
>
> When ever I issue the command
>
>   sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.eth0.mc_forwarding=1
>
> I get the following error
>
> error: permission denied on key 'net.ipv4.conf.eth0.mc_forwarding'
>
> How do I get around this error.  I need to be able to turn on forwarding.
>
> Chip
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