From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 11 14:46:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts2-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts2.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7251937BC39 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:45:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from transmogrify@sympatico.ca) Received: from sympatico.ca ([207.236.126.23]) by tomts2-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP id <20000411214553.OPBZ1435.tomts2-srv.bellnexxia.net@sympatico.ca>; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:45:53 -0400 Message-ID: <38F39C65.61F8BF44@sympatico.ca> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:43:01 -0400 From: Paul Halliday X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Smithurst Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD networking References: <38F27580.B390B90A@sympatico.ca> <20000411163242.T60798@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst wrote: > > Paul Halliday wrote: > > > FreeBSD side: edit the necessary fields in you > > /etc/defaults/rc.conf to turn the machine into a gateway. Again, > > extremely staight forward. Good luck. > > This is slightly bad advice. You should NOT edit /etc/defaults/rc.conf > directly. Instead, override the settings there by putting them in > /etc/rc.conf and changing them to whatever you want. (This may be what > you meant, but didn't quite explain it fully.) > I also forgot to include the most important thing... NATD. doh. > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D -- Paul H. ======================================================================= Don't underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. Email: dp@penix.org & transmogrify@sympatico.ca BIO: http://bling.dyn.dhs.org GPG Key fingerprint: 2D7C A7E2 DB1F EA5F 8C6F D5EC 3D39 F274 4AA3E8B9 Public Key's available here: http://bling.dyn.dhs.org/texts/public.html ======================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message