Why is ip_forward set to 1 when my system boots even when sysctl has ip_forward set to zero?

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Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and later

Red Hat Enterprise Linux machines which run libvirtd service or Xen kernel, ipv4.ip_forwardvalue set to 1 at boot time.This C library provides an API to use the Xen virtualization framework,and the virsh command line tool to control virtual domains.

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