Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 18:15:23 -0500 From: Nick Slager <zith@zith.net> To: Andrew Brampton <andrew@bramp.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gateway_enable="YES" without a restart Message-ID: <20021103181523.A53531@zith.net> In-Reply-To: <0a1c01c2838d$97e1cbe0$0300a8c0@andrew>; from andrew@bramp.freeserve.co.uk on Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:06:04PM -0000 References: <0a1c01c2838d$97e1cbe0$0300a8c0@andrew>
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Thus spake Andrew Brampton (andrew@bramp.freeserve.co.uk): > Hi, > I'm new to FreeBSD, I've had my box running for about 3-4 weeks now. Anyway > I've decided to enable it as a gateway by editing the /etc/rc.conf file. I > previously had it running as a gateway but I commented the > gateway_enable="YES" line. Now I want to uncomment this line so it routes my > traffic, but I don't want to actually restart my box because its got a 17 > day uptime, and I want to see how high I can get it, and the past 17 days > would of been wasted if I reboot :) # sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 Nick -- "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty." -- Douglas Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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