From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 7 03:24:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA19577 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 03:24:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA19566 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 03:24:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nike.efn.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA03314; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 03:24:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 03:24:01 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney X-Sender: jmg@nike Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: changing default sysctl values in kernel... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > > well... the subject says it all... I have a server that is designed to be > > a terminal server... and I would like a way to compile a kernel with the > > default of net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1... instead of 0... will allow me to > > not have sysctl on the machine... thanks for your help... ttyl.. > > Just put > > options GATEWAY > > in your kernel config file. but I thought that was made obsolete by the sysctl value and didn't do anything any more... does it still enable routing? I just did a search through the kernel source (960801-SNAP) and the only place I found anything referencing GATEWAY was in some files in i386/boot/... other than that nothing... ttyl.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)