Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 00:10:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jack@sage-one.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Routed daemon Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204230006020.71036-100000@cody.jharris.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020422221405.011fa098@mail.sage-one.net>
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jack L. Stone wrote: > Running FBSD 4.5-release > I'm hitting a brick wall in getting the gateway interface alias to > forward all incoming packets from the public interface to a web server > on another server on the LAN. The packets are coming in to the gateway > server and supposed to be forwarded according to the address redirect. > The netstat -r shows that the routing tables look correct, so am > stumped. > > In looking for a solution, I wondered about the routed daemon which > comes with the base system. I had read that it runs by default, but a > ps -auxw | grep routed does not show the routed at all. It only runs if you enable it via /etc/rc.conf > > Also, see that the rc.conf can be configured to run routed at boot, > that is, if it's not running silently somewhere...and if I need it. > From reading routed(8), it sounds like the a missing ingredient. > > This really must a stupid question, but could the the routed daemon, > or lack of, be my problem of forwarding the packets properly...????? > Really a "green" question, but I'm still learning this stuff.... so, > does the routed daemon need to be launched at bootup...???? You need to forward packets between interfaces which can be accomlished by setting: gateway_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and reboot. You can check the status of it by: # sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1 It should say 1 not 0. Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> - Don't mind me...I'm just sniffing your packets To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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