Subject: Re: sysctl, argument parsing, possible bug

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 19:40:00 -0700

On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 14:27:37 -0700
Cong Wang <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Massimo Sala <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0.100/forwarding
> > 0
> >
> > sysctl net.ipv4.conf.eth0.100.forwarding
> > error: "net.ipv4.conf.eth0.100.forwarding" is an unknown key
> >  
> 
> Use echo instead, sysctl doesn't understand eth0.100
> is a netdev name, sigh.

sysctl happily accepts / as a separator see man sysctl(8)

PARAMETERS
       variable
              The  name  of  a  key to read from.  An example is kernel.ostype.  The '/' separator is also
              accepted in place of a '.'.