From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 19:48:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582AB37C150 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 19:48:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool0880.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.253.115]) by kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA23531; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 19:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00328; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 19:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 19:44:50 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Joel Eusebio Cc: Christoph Sold , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gateway Message-ID: <20000703194450.A268@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <39606904.4FA54EFD@i-clue.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from joel@tilapia.pang.pworld.net.ph on Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 01:14:46AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 01:14:46AM +0000, Joel Eusebio wrote: > I just want my FreeBSD box to be a gateway to the internet. I've set > firewall_type to "open" to avoid any kind of restrictions but when I do a > traceroute from one of my workstations who's gateway is the freebsd box I > get all * * *. I have disabled natd since I won't be needing translation > coz all the IP's I'm using are live. I've checked the > /etc/defaults/rc.conf file and copied some of(what I think are important) > to the /etc/rc.conf file but still the Freebsd box won't act as a gateway. > What did I miss??? Thanks for your support. Some hints as to those lines that you thought were important that you put in /etc/rc.conf would really help. Can the FreeBSD gateway talk to other machines. Can the machines on your subnet talk directly to the FreeBSD machine? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message