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

[Jon Carnes]

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 17:24, Ralph Blach wrote:
> 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

How about putting this in your rc.local file:
  echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/mc_forwarding