Forwarding IPv4 packets default setting

arnoproxmox

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Hello everyone,

When debugging routing trouble in my home lan with a PVE box I came across the following issue:
IPv4 forwarding was disabled in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward.

Expected behaviour for me would be IPv4 forwarding enabled by default.
In the webGUI I changed the Firewall setting of the datacenter and node to 'No' expecting PVE would not block network traffic.

Can this be caused by not been able to use the ISO installer?

My solution is to enable it in /etc/sysctl.conf to make it persistant across reboots.
Shouldn't the proxmox-ve package enable IPv4 forwarding?

Background:
Installing from ISO failed because of an error message about disk size. Something about disk too small if I remember correctly.
So I installed Debian 10 followed by apt install proxmox-ve.
 
Hi,
I think it's disabled by default on installations using the ISO too. Many network configurations don't need it (see here), it should be an active choice by the administrator to enable it.
 

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