From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 21 0: 2:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A0E337B422 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:02:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:00:41 -0700 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8L71mj26956; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:01:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:01:43 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Marc Silver Cc: Peter Stapley , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP Forwarding Message-ID: <20000921000143.Y367@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20000921083145.G99381@draenor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000921083145.G99381@draenor.org>; from marcs@draenor.org on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 08:31:45AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 08:31:45AM +0200, Marc Silver wrote: > I believe you can change this by running this command (as root): > > sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 The appropriate setting to add to rc.conf in order to preserve the behavior over reboots is, gateway_enable="YES" See rc.conf(5). > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 10:38:13PM -0600, Peter Stapley wrote: > > The PPP man pages says to enable IP forwarding if network programs work on > > the host but not on other machines on the network. That is my case, but > > when I looked at /etc/defaults/rc.conf I can find nothing about IP > > forwarding. Any ideas? FreeBSD 4.1 -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message