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From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com>
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To: Paul Thornton <prt@prt.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: net.inet.ip.forwarding is mysteriously set to 0
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On 04/24/15 18:57, Paul Thornton wrote:
> Hi
>
> This happens when any interface is created if you've enabled forwarding
> with the sysctl and not using gateway_enable in rc.conf.  It is easily
> fixed though.
>
> See this thread from January:
> https://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=403720+0+archive/2015/freebsd-net/20150104.freebsd-net

Ok, thanks for the pointer. Everything is clear now.

Nikos