Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 03:36:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> To: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> Cc: Shane Hagan <shane_64@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I did it! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008280332190.1633-100000@w2xo.w2xo.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000828100357.008912f0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Roger Merritt wrote: > At 05:36 PM 8/27/00 +0000, you wrote: > >On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Shane Hagan wrote: > <snip nice clear explanation> > >back in /etc/rc.conf.. > > > >firewall_enable="YES > >firewall_type="open" > >natd_enable="YES" > >natd_interface="edo" > >gateway_enable="yes' > > > > Hmmm. I just upgraded to 4.1-STABLE and discovered that elves have > added a couple of lines to /etc/defaults/rc.conf, so this actually > seems to need: > > gateway_enable="YES"` > firewall_enable="YES" > firewall_type="open" > natd_enable="YES" > natd_interface="ed1" > forward_sourceroute="YES" # do source routing (only if gateway_enable > is set t > o "YES") > accept_sourceroute="YES" # accept source routed packets to us > > The last two lines default to "NO", so you need to insert the changes > in /etc/rc.conf. Without them natd stopped forwarding packets, and I > wasn't even getting any error messages. > -- Yoiks... was that wierd! I just..and I mean *just* was finishing upgrading my server to 4.1-STABLE and logged in to run mail and Voila! there was your mail about this. Now, in spite of the fact that I don't have these enabled, mine appears to be working. I jumped on this box and ran Netscape to look at a page and it worked, so now I'm gonna have to do some research! Thanks for the tip -Jim Durham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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