[Devel] Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25 10/11][INET] Eliminate difference in actions of sysctl and proc handler for conf.all.forwarding

[David Miller]

From: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 22:06:01 +1100

> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:39:33PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > But we go back again to the question of how to get this "current
> > behavior" setting instantiated early enough.  So much stuff happens
> > via initrd's etc. before the real userland has a change to run things,
> > read setting from the real filesystem config giles, in order to change
> > this.
> 
> Perhaps a boot time command line option?

It's not pleasant but it would indeed work.