From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 17 14:11:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449E514CA2 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:11:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from localhost.hell.gr (patr530-a039.otenet.gr [195.167.115.39]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA22331 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:11:12 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 1977 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Dec 1999 15:29:44 -0000 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:29:44 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ready to Route Message-ID: <19991217172944.C363@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 04:38:30PM -0800, keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: | Got my machine multihomed now. Is there a need to run routed in order to | use it as a router or will the base system route traffic from one network | to another "asis" you should be able to get away with: sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 but there is a relevant option in /etc/rc.conf called gateway_enable which you should try setting to "YES". if you don't have some strange topology, that needs `special' messing with the routing table, you should find it's pretty easy after all. -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message