From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 10:52:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA00194 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:52:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA00184 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA18600; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:55:09 -0700 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:55:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Paul Walsh cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help - FreeBSD as a router In-Reply-To: <3184C18C.2B3E@nation-net.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Paul Walsh wrote: > Got FreeBSD/Apache running on a 10bT ethernetwork. Our Microrouter 900i > keeps losing its settings more and more frequently (pain). Is it > possible to use freeBSD as a router. And what other hardware would I > need ? Yes you can; you don't need any special hardware other than an appropriate number of Ethernet cards. Check out FAQ question 10.2, reprinted below. Don't ask me questions on this, I'm just relaying information. :-) -- click -- 10.2. I've heard that you can use a FreeBSD box as a dedicated network router - is there any easy support for this? Internet standards and good engineering practice prohibit us from providing packet forwarding by default in FreeBSD. You can however enable this feature by changing the following variable to YES in /etc/sysconfig: # If you want this host to be a gateway, set to YES. gateway=YES This option will put the sysctl variable net.inet.ip.forwarding to 1. In most cases, you will also need to run a routing process to tell other systems on your network about your router; FreeBSD comes with the standard BSD routing daemon routed(8), or for more complex situations you may want to try GaTeD (available by FTP from ftp.gated.Merit.EDU) which supports FreeBSD as of 3_5Alpha7. It is our duty to warn you that, even when FreeBSD is configured in this way, it does not completely comply with the Internet standard requirements for routers; however, it comes close enough for ordinary usage. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major