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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


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