From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 26 7:44:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D62D137B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:44:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id QAA14717; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:52:45 +0200 Message-ID: <3B602D6A.92FEE733@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:47:06 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: al ex Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ping ping ping References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG al ex wrote: > > hi > having problems Setting up natd on my FreeBSD 4.3 box, so tested pinging the > NIC address from an inside win box. > The win boxs pings xl1 my inside NIC perfectly > both my win NIC and xl1 are connected to a 4 port hub. > but pinging xl0 my outside NIC comes back immediatly 100% losted > ipfw is wide open for all to see, so thats not an issue > What i'm i forgetting about????? Either enable routing in the kernel: # sysctl -a|grep forw net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1 If it is 0, your kernel won't route. Activate with # sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 The corresponding rc.conf feature is called gateway_enable. Maybe you want to activate natd, too. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message