From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 13 09:00:22 2003 Return-Path: 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 A2D2537B401 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 09:00:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.acd.net (smtp.acd.net [207.179.102.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CF2E43FA3 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 09:00:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from taxman@ACD.NET) Received: from 207.179.77.118 ([207.179.77.118]) by smtp.acd.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Sun, 13 Apr 2003 12:01:13 -0400 From: taxman To: Wayne Pascoe , Jonathon McKitrick Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 12:04:12 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030411121053.GA77709@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20030413121355.GA96192@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20030413152629.GA886@marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030413152629.GA886@marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304131204.13035.taxman@acd.net> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Apr 2003 16:01:14.0068 (UTC) FILETIME=[E8BA2140:01C301D5] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to connect laptop and desktop w/NICs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 16:00:22 -0000 On Sunday 13 April 2003 11:26 am, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 01:13:55PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > So far, so good. I can ping each machine from the other, and reset these > > settings on startup. > > > > However, the laptop (which I decided to make a client of the desktop, now > > that I have a modem for the desktop) cannot ping past the gateway. I > > have the default router set to the desktop, but something else must be > > wrong. > > > > Do I need to have inetd or natd running explicitly for this to work? > > Do you have > gateway_enable="YES" > in /etc/rc.conf ? If not you need to add this. from rc.conf(5) it doesn't seem that gateway_enable starts natd. Then what is the difference? I'm a networking moron and in a similiar situation as Jonathon, and I was wondering which options to use. Thanks, Tim