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Date:      Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:45:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      Sean Peck <speck@newsindex.com>
To:        David Raistrick <keen@damoe.wireless-isp.net>
Cc:        Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Configuring Gateway/NAT on Freebsd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10012102143190.27328-100000@www.newsindex.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012110010390.61629-100000@damoe.wireless-isp.net>

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On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, David Raistrick wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Sean Peck wrote:
> 
> > > su to root and manually set it.
> > 
> >  Yes, root can set it manually, but with :
> > 
> > natd_enabled="YES" and gate_enabled="YES" on bootup the sysctl shows a 0
> 
> Ah.

It is gateway_enabled, sorry.
 
> according to my 4.1-stable rc.conf, it should be 
> 
> gateway_enable="YES"
> 
> not gate_enable.
> 
> 
> > The interesting thing I am still having though is dispite the ifconfig
> > alias for 172.16.0.1 being on, the box is not answering to the IP... nor
> > can any other machine on my network succesfully find it... NO errors are
> > being thrown ... even after manually setting it at command line, I still
> > cannot hit the box via the 172.16.0.1 ip...
> 
> This is odd.
> 
> ie:
> 
> damoe:/home/keen%> su
> Password:
> damoe:/root%# ping 172.16.0.254
> PING 172.16.0.254 (172.16.0.254): 56 data bytes
> ^C
> --- 172.16.0.254 ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
> damoe:/root%# ifconfig xl0 alias 172.16.0.254 netmask 255.255.255.0
> damoe:/root%# ping 172.16.0.254
> PING 172.16.0.254 (172.16.0.254): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 172.16.0.254: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.121 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.0.254: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.072 ms
> 64 bytes from 172.16.0.254: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.072 ms
> ^C
> --- 172.16.0.254 ping statistics ---
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.072/0.088/0.121/0.023 ms
> damoe:/root%# 
> 
> 
> (sorry, 172.16.0.1 is routed somewhere in my network so I could ping it
> already..:)
> 
> Lets see what your ifconfig -a  shows, then.
> 
> 
> (or more specificly, ifconfig xl0 )
> 
> damoe:/root%# ifconfig xl0
> xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet6 fe80::260:97ff:fe9d:c66%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
>         inet 208.61.227.212 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 208.61.227.215
>         inet 192.168.3.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.3.255
>         inet 172.16.0.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.0.255
>         ether 00:60:97:9d:0c:66 
>         media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP <full-duplex>) status: active
>         supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX
> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX <hw-loopback>
> 
> 
> ....david
> 
> --
> David Raistrick		Digital Wireless Communications
> davidr@dwcinet.com


I don't know it is odd, the machine should be listening to 172.16.0.1, but
I cannot reach it... even from the box itself... 



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