From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jun 20 09:45:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA23805 for doc-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:45:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.dsu.edu (ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu [138.247.32.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA23800 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:45:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ghelmer@localhost) by alpha.dsu.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA23934 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 11:45:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 11:45:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Helmer Reply-To: Guy Helmer To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Mistake in handbook Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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