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Date:      Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:01:43 -0700
From:      "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
Cc:        Peter Stapley <pstapley@rapidnet.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IP Forwarding
Message-ID:  <20000921000143.Y367@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000921083145.G99381@draenor.org>; from marcs@draenor.org on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 08:31:45AM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009202236420.42789-100000@rapidnet.com> <20000921083145.G99381@draenor.org>

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On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 08:31:45AM +0200, Marc Silver wrote:
> I believe you can change this by running this command (as root):
> 
> sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1

The appropriate setting to add to rc.conf in order to preserve the
behavior over reboots is,

  gateway_enable="YES"

See rc.conf(5).

> On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 10:38:13PM -0600, Peter Stapley wrote:
> > The PPP man pages says to enable IP forwarding if network programs work on
> > the host but not on other machines on the network. That is my case, but
> > when I looked at /etc/defaults/rc.conf I can find nothing about IP
> > forwarding. Any ideas? FreeBSD 4.1
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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