Changing networkd's IPForward= default from "no" to "kernel"?

[Martin Pitt]

Hello all,

Martin Pitt [2015-10-05 15:53 +0200]:
> upstream networkd (and in Debian up to now) defaults to IPForward=no
> (see man systemd.network), i. e. if you configure a network interface
> through networkd without explicitly setting IPForward=, the
> per-interface setting (/proc/sys/net/ipv{4,6}/conf/iface/forwarding)
> will be disabled.
> 
> This has the effect that all packages which do something like "echo 1
> > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" in their init scripts, postinst, etc.
> (and we have a lot: [1]) stop working, as the per-interface setting
> naturally overrides the global config.

Just to conclude this for the mail archives: This has been resolved
upstream in 228.  networkd now only enables forwarding, never disables
it, so the global control is back working:

 https://github.com/poettering/systemd/commit/765afd5c4dbc

Martin

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