From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 17 03:57:32 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id DAA27962 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 03:57:32 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA27881 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 03:55:14 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA27594; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 12:53:08 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA03556; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 12:53:08 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA15731; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 12:23:11 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511171123.MAA15731@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Building a gateway To: scrappy@hub.org (Marc G. Fournier) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 12:23:11 +0100 (MET) Cc: geoff@ginsu.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Marc G. Fournier" at Nov 16, 95 11:57:27 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 539 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Have you enabled GATEWAY in the kernel? If memory serves, you need > to add: > > options GATEWAY Nope. This is deprecated. Use sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 at run-time instead of building a special kernel. In 2.1, all you need to do is changing # If you want this host to be a gateway, set to YES. gateway=NO in /etc/sysconfig. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)