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Date:      Sun, 28 Apr 1996 16:16:03 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        CPELTIER@iectech.com (Chris Peltier)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Private Address forwarding by BSD
Message-ID:  <199604280646.QAA10645@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <96Apr27.143809edt.6146@netgate.iectech.com> from "Chris Peltier" at Apr 27, 96 02:31:17 pm

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Chris Peltier stands accused of saying:
> It appears that FreeBSD does not forward private IP addresses or am I
> missing something?

sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1

or 

gateway=YES  

in /etc/sysconfig.

You're not forwarding at all unless one of these is enabled.  I use a number
of FreeBSD boxes to route private networks, as I'm sure do countless other
people.

> -- Chris Peltier 

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