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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Building a gateway
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 12:00:44 -0600 (CST)
Cc: scrappy@hub.org, geoff@ginsu.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199511171123.MAA15731@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 17, 95 12:23:11 pm
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> 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.

options GATEWAY used to increase certain kernel resources as well as
enabling IP forwarding.  If this is still the case - I would say that the
sysctl method is much less preferable.

... JG