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net.ipv4.ip_forward [message #53390]

Wed, 04 July 2018 11:26

fvafva
Messages: 8
Registered: June 2018

Junior Member

Hello,

I am using CentOS 6 as host for openVZ, and Ubuntu 16 as guests.

On all our hosts net.ipv4.ip_forward=1, which looks normal according to documention.
But I have same for guests (mainly webservers).

Is it a requirement to have net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 for VPS?

Thanks.

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Re: net.ipv4.ip_forward [message #53391 is a reply to message #53390]

Wed, 04 July 2018 13:02

vaverin
Messages: 708
Registered: September 2005

Senior Member

Dear fvafva,

usually containers have only one network interface, so net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 is not required for them.
It can be useful if container have severl interfaces, openvpn tunnel for example.

Such setting in containers are inherited from host,
and can be adjusted via /etc/sysctl.conf inside guest.

in my new centos6 containers this systl is set to 0,
because /etc/sysctl.conf in Os template overrides the setting inherited from host.

Thank you,
Vasily Averin

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Re: net.ipv4.ip_forward [message #53392 is a reply to message #53391]

Wed, 04 July 2018 13:06

fvafva
Messages: 8
Registered: June 2018

Junior Member

So looks like we have net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 just because it is inherited from host.
I understand from your post it is not required by openVZ (but of course can be required for different reasons).

Thanks for that answer.

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