Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 11:45:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Mistake in handbook Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.94.960620113238.23825A-100000@alpha.dsu.edu>
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In http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook167.html, there is a section which reads: However, FreeBSD's default kernels do not come configured to forward packets (ie, your FreeBSD machine will not act as a router) due to Internet RFC requirements for Internet hosts (see RFC's 1009 [Requirements for Internet Gateways], 1122 [Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Communication Layers], and perhaps 1127 [A Perspective on the Host Requirements RFCs]), so if you want your FreeBSD SLIP Server to act as a router, you will have to add the line sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding = 0 to your rc.local file. It seems that the "sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding = 0" line should be corrected to read "sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding = 1", since 0 is the default. I appreciate the effort someone made to update this document, but since my name is still given as the author, I would greatly appreciate it if this were fixed! Thanks, Guy Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu
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