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mladen

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Registered: 2004-03-03

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sysctl.conf - best way to start at boot?

Hi all! 

My arch box serves as firewall/router to other boxes on my home network. Obviously, I have to use NAT and net.ipv4 forwarding set to 1 (via sysctl.conf file).

My question is: what's the best way to start sysctl at boot, so those kernel variables are set (forwarding, syncookies etc.)?

Currently, I've:
- put my little script with "sysctl -p" line in rc.d directory;
- call that script from rc.conf;
- sysctl.conf is in /etc .
It works... but, I wander what is the better/proper way of doing it.

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aCoder

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Registered: 2004-03-07

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Re: sysctl.conf - best way to start at boot?

Well, there really isn't a wrong way to start something at boot, as long as the deps are started first, and it's OK to have it running as root.  You could do it other ways, but I don't see how they'd be any better.

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mladen

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Registered: 2004-03-03

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Re: sysctl.conf - best way to start at boot?

Thanks aCoder.

With some other distros, it would be done automatically (sysctl at boot). User just needs to set values of the sysctl.conf file.
With Arch, both steps are manual - and I didn't know any better way. In other hand, that's what Arch is about, eh!

Cheers,
mladen

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