From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 1 16:40:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA18107 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 16:40:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from parody.tecc.co.uk (parody.tecc.co.uk [193.128.6.83]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA18102 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 16:40:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by parody.tecc.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA00256; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 12:21:34 GMT Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 12:21:33 +0000 () From: James Raynard To: Bob Willcox cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Setting up a gateway machine? In-Reply-To: <199512281809.MAA15982@luke.pmr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 28 Dec 1995, Bob Willcox wrote: > I am trying to setup one of my systems to serve as a gateway machine > between two ethernet networks. (Note: I am, relatively, a netorking > novice :-() I have built the kernel with the "GATEWAY" option, > but obviously have to do more than just that. (Since it still will > not forward packets from one network to the other). The (to be) > gateway machine can talk to systems on both networks, it just > doesn't seem to want to do the forwarding Apparently the GATEWAY option is deprecated. If you're running 2.1, just edit /etc/sysconfig and change the gateway line from NO to YES. For earlier versions, there's a sysctl command - 'man sysctl' will give the details. James Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'