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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:54:37 +0100
From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To: "Paul S." <contact@winterei.se>
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Subject: Re: net.inet.ip.forwarding is mysteriously set to 0
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On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 01:47:50AM +0900, Paul S. wrote:
> Can confirm that anything to do with netif restart on a forwarding 
> interface also creates the same problem.
> 
> On 4/25/2015 ?????? 01:46, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just saw this. Can somebody re-produce this?
> >
> >> root@m4fh2:~ # sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding
> >> net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1
> >> root@m4fh2:~ # ifconfig bridge0 create
> >> root@m4fh2:~ # sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding
> >> net.inet.ip.forwarding: 0
> >
> > That's on GENERIC 10-STABLE from the day before yesterday.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nikos

What is your setting for gateway_enable in /etc/rc.conf?

Gary