Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:47:06 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: al ex <bovalex@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ping ping ping Message-ID: <3B602D6A.92FEE733@i-clue.de> References: <F4106vdGg1fDc5DYge200008905@hotmail.com>
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al ex wrote: > > hi > having problems Setting up natd on my FreeBSD 4.3 box, so tested pinging the > NIC address from an inside win box. > The win boxs pings xl1 my inside NIC perfectly > both my win NIC and xl1 are connected to a 4 port hub. > but pinging xl0 my outside NIC comes back immediatly 100% losted > ipfw is wide open for all to see, so thats not an issue > What i'm i forgetting about????? Either enable routing in the kernel: # sysctl -a|grep forw net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1 If it is 0, your kernel won't route. Activate with # sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 The corresponding rc.conf feature is called gateway_enable. Maybe you want to activate natd, too. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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