Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 12:46:36 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Joel Eusebio <joel@tilapia.pang.pworld.net.ph> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gateway Message-ID: <20000703124636.B433@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000703083327.15666A-100000@tilapia.pang.pworld.net.ph>; from joel@tilapia.pang.pworld.net.ph on Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 08:40:04AM %2B0000 References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000703083327.15666A-100000@tilapia.pang.pworld.net.ph>
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On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 08:40:04AM +0000, Joel Eusebio wrote:
>
> If you have the option "gateway_enable="YES" in your rc.conf will this
> technically allow all traffic to pass by my freebsd box??? whatever the
> protocol that is being used unless specified in my /etc/rc.firewall???
No. If we look at what gateway_enable does in rc.network,
case ${gateway_enable} in
[Yy][Ee][Ss])
echo -n ' IP gateway=YES'
sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 >/dev/null
;;
esac
It turns on IP forwarding only.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu
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