Why after restarting the network service, "net.ipv4.ip_forward" parameter value set to 0?

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Issue

  • Why the net.ipv4.ip_forward parameter value is set to 0 after running a systemctl restart network command?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) 6.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) 7.

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