From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 10:57:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA04573 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 10:57:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA04568 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 10:57:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA06735; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 10:57:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 10:57:08 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Stan Brown cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Do I need to run routed? In-Reply-To: <199701231608.LAA29919@netcom16.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Stan Brown wrote: > I am using my FreeBSD machine as an internet gateway for the rest of my > network. I am using IP Masqureading to acomplish this. My ISP dynacily > assigns IP addresses. FreeBSD never included "masquerading". You may have been using a combination of gateway=yes in sysconfig and some other utility such as SOCKS or IPFilter/NAT. > Under 2.1.5 Iws running routed. Under 2.2 BEAT I get nast error > messages when I run routed. > > Do I need to run routed to acomplish whatI want to do here? If not > under what circumstances *would* I need to run routed? I believe the way to do it at current is to enable gateway and to run the IPFilter package. See the mail archives for full details. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major