Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
This also sets all interfaces’ Host/Router setting ‘forwarding’ to the specified value. See below for details.
This referred to as global forwarding.
Nb: per interface setting (where “interface” is the name of your network interface); “all” is a special interface: changes the settings for all interfaces.
layout: sysctl title: forwarding sysctl-category: net.ipv6 sysctl-file: /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/interface/forwarding sysctl-variable: net.ipv6.conf.interface.forwarding source: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt — Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
Possible values are: 0 Forwarding disabled 1 Forwarding enabled
FALSE (0):
By default, Host behaviour is assumed. This means:
TRUE (1):
If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed. This means exactly the reverse from the above:
Default: 0 (disabled) if global forwarding is disabled (default), otherwise 1 (enabled).
Nb: per interface setting (where “interface” is the name of your network interface); “all” is a special interface: changes the settings for all interfaces.
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