From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 3 15:10:47 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 26BBE37B401 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 15:10:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from hamberg.it.uu.se (hamberg.it.uu.se [130.238.9.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D7743E42 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 15:10:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@csd.uu.se) Received: (from ertr1013@localhost) by hamberg.it.uu.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA27508; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 00:10:42 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 00:10:42 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Andrew Brampton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gateway_enable="YES" without a restart Message-ID: <20021103231042.GA3278@student.uu.se> References: <0a1c01c2838d$97e1cbe0$0300a8c0@andrew> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0a1c01c2838d$97e1cbe0$0300a8c0@andrew> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:06:04PM -0000, Andrew Brampton wrote: > 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 :) > > Sorry if this sounds a bit lame, but I'm trying to beat my 21day uptime on > Windows 2k. So what command could I type, or which process could I > kill/restart so that my box will function as a gateway? sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 is the command you are looking for. (This is most easily figured out by looking in /etc/rc.network and seeing what command is executed when rc.conf contains gateway_enable="yes" ) > > I had a quick scan through the man page on rc.conf, but didn't find anything > of relevance, but I did find many other useful lines I might add to my > rc.conf file later (just to play around with).. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message