Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 12:00:44 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: scrappy@hub.org, geoff@ginsu.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building a gateway Message-ID: <199511171800.MAA02576@brasil.moneng.mei.com> 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
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