Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 05:00:23 GMT From: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/81199: handbook/ipfw does not mention gateway_enable in rc.conf Message-ID: <200505190500.j4J50NxL021737@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/81199; it has been noted by GNATS. From: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> To: Rong-En Fan <rafan@infor.org> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/81199: handbook/ipfw does not mention gateway_enable in rc.conf Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 12:53:46 +0800 (WST) On Wed, 18 May 2005, Rong-En Fan wrote: > >Description: > Handbook 24.5 and 24.6 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-ipf.html > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html > > in 24.6, which contains ipfw/natd, and it does not explicitly mention > gateway_enable="YES" if you are going to use private ip. While 24.5.3 > (section about ipf) does it. > > >Fix: > Add similar things in 24.5.3 to 24.6.3. The following patch should cover it. ----- firewalls.chapter.81199.patch begins here ----- --- firewalls.chapter.orig 2005-05-08 22:15:43.000000000 +0800 +++ firewalls.chapter.1 2005-05-19 12:49:45.000000000 +0800 @@ -2265,6 +2265,11 @@ <programlisting>net.inet.ip.fw.verbose_limit=5</programlisting> </warning> + + <para>If you are using NAT, enable IP forwarding:</para> + + <programlisting>gateway_enable="YES"</programlisting> + </sect2> <sect2 id="firewalls-ipfw-cmd"> ----- firewalls.chapter.81199.patch ends here ----- Can Rong-En or someone else using IPFW to do NAT confirm that this is required before it gets checked in, please? (I assume there are still some people out there who do...) David Adam zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
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