Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 12:04:12 -0400 From: taxman <taxman@acd.net> To: Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@penguinpowered.org.uk>, Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to connect laptop and desktop w/NICs Message-ID: <200304131204.13035.taxman@acd.net> In-Reply-To: <20030413152629.GA886@marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk> References: <20030411121053.GA77709@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20030413121355.GA96192@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20030413152629.GA886@marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk>
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On Sunday 13 April 2003 11:26 am, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 01:13:55PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > So far, so good. I can ping each machine from the other, and reset these > > settings on startup. > > > > However, the laptop (which I decided to make a client of the desktop, now > > that I have a modem for the desktop) cannot ping past the gateway. I > > have the default router set to the desktop, but something else must be > > wrong. > > > > Do I need to have inetd or natd running explicitly for this to work? > > Do you have > gateway_enable="YES" > in /etc/rc.conf ? If not you need to add this. from rc.conf(5) it doesn't seem that gateway_enable starts natd. Then what is the difference? I'm a networking moron and in a similiar situation as Jonathon, and I was wondering which options to use. Thanks, Tim
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