Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:55:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Paul Walsh <paul@nation-net.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help - FreeBSD as a router Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960429105330.18326D-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3184C18C.2B3E@nation-net.com>
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On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Paul Walsh wrote:
> Got FreeBSD/Apache running on a 10bT ethernetwork. Our Microrouter 900i
> keeps losing its settings more and more frequently (pain). Is it
> possible to use freeBSD as a router. And what other hardware would I
> need ?
Yes you can; you don't need any special hardware other than an
appropriate number of Ethernet cards. Check out FAQ question 10.2,
reprinted below. Don't ask me questions on this, I'm just relaying
information. :-)
-- click --
10.2. I've heard that you can use a FreeBSD box as a dedicated network router
- is there any easy support for this?
Internet standards and good engineering practice prohibit us from
providing packet forwarding by default in
FreeBSD. You can however enable this feature by changing the following
variable to YES in
/etc/sysconfig:
# If you want this host to be a gateway, set to YES.
gateway=YES
This option will put the sysctl variable net.inet.ip.forwarding to 1.
In most cases, you will also need to run a routing process to tell other
systems on your network about your
router; FreeBSD comes with the standard BSD routing daemon routed(8), or
for more complex
situations you may want to try GaTeD (available by FTP from
ftp.gated.Merit.EDU) which supports
FreeBSD as of 3_5Alpha7.
It is our duty to warn you that, even when FreeBSD is configured in this
way, it does not completely
comply with the Internet standard requirements for routers; however, it
comes close enough for ordinary
usage.
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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