Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 23:02:33 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Joel Eusebio <joel@tilapia.pang.pworld.net.ph> Cc: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gateway Message-ID: <20000703230232.A679@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000704032153.1179A-100000@tilapia.pang.pworld.net.ph>; from joel@tilapia.pang.pworld.net.ph on Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 03:43:39AM %2B0000 References: <20000703194450.A268@dialin-client.earthlink.net> <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000704032153.1179A-100000@tilapia.pang.pworld.net.ph>
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On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 03:43:39AM +0000, Joel Eusebio wrote: > Yes the other machines on the same subnet can talk directly....I can ping, > telnet, ssh to the freebsd gateway and vice versa. What is the most > important thing that I should take into consideration for this freebsd box > to work as a gateway??? Is it the gateway_enable="YES", will this work > without any firewall rules installed??? Thanks again for your support. Yes, that gateway_enable is always necessary whenever the machine is a gateway. A machine will forward packets when that is set without firewalling or NAT enabled. Haven't we been over that a few times in this thread already? -- 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
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