From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 18 00:54:07 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA03749 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 00:54:07 -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 AAA03741 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 00:54:02 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA28851; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 09:51:48 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA12559; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 09:51:47 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA20171; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 09:43:19 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511180843.JAA20171@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Building a gateway To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 09:43:18 +0100 (MET) Cc: scrappy@hub.org, geoff@ginsu.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511171800.MAA02576@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Nov 17, 95 12:00:44 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: 588 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Joe Greco wrote: > 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. As you said: ``It used to...'' It doesn't do it any more, David Greenman has been incresing these sizes unconditionally to the GATEWAY values long before. People should expect options GATEWAY to disappear some day. -- 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. ;-)