From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 27 23:48:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA11769 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Apr 1996 23:48:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA11752 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 1996 23:47:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA10645; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 16:16:03 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604280646.QAA10645@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Private Address forwarding by BSD To: CPELTIER@iectech.com (Chris Peltier) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 16:16:03 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <96Apr27.143809edt.6146@netgate.iectech.com> from "Chris Peltier" at Apr 27, 96 02:31:17 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chris Peltier stands accused of saying: > It appears that FreeBSD does not forward private IP addresses or am I > missing something? sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 or gateway=YES in /etc/sysconfig. You're not forwarding at all unless one of these is enabled. I use a number of FreeBSD boxes to route private networks, as I'm sure do countless other people. > -- Chris Peltier -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[