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Yance Kowara wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>What's the difference between 
>
>gateway_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf
>
>and
>
>net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf
>
>Regards,
>  
>
There are no differences, you can check this by greping gateway_enable  
in /etc/rc.d/*.