From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 3 15:10: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8A5137B414 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 15:10:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail102.csoft.net (lilly.csoft.net [63.111.22.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F194143E3B for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 15:10:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zith@lilly.csoft.net) Received: (qmail 53795 invoked by uid 1876); 3 Nov 2002 23:15:23 -0000 Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 18:15:23 -0500 From: Nick Slager To: Andrew Brampton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gateway_enable="YES" without a restart Message-ID: <20021103181523.A53531@zith.net> References: <0a1c01c2838d$97e1cbe0$0300a8c0@andrew> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <0a1c01c2838d$97e1cbe0$0300a8c0@andrew>; from andrew@bramp.freeserve.co.uk on Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:06:04PM -0000 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! 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 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