From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 23: 4:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F379437B9B6 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 23:04:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool0514.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.252.4]) by penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA05021; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 23:04:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA00698; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 23:03:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 23:02:33 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Joel Eusebio Cc: Christoph Sold , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gateway Message-ID: <20000703230232.A679@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20000703194450.A268@dialin-client.earthlink.net> 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 03:43:39AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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