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Date:      Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:47:06 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        al ex <bovalex@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ping ping ping
Message-ID:  <3B602D6A.92FEE733@i-clue.de>
References:  <F4106vdGg1fDc5DYge200008905@hotmail.com>

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al ex wrote:
> 
> hi
> having problems Setting up natd on my FreeBSD 4.3 box, so tested pinging the
> NIC address from an inside win box.
> The win boxs pings xl1 my inside NIC perfectly
> both my win NIC and xl1 are connected to a 4 port hub.
> but pinging xl0 my outside NIC comes back immediatly 100% losted
> ipfw is wide open for all to see, so thats not an issue
> What i'm i forgetting about?????

Either enable routing in the kernel:

# sysctl -a|grep forw
net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1

If it is 0, your kernel won't route. Activate with

# sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1

The corresponding rc.conf feature is called gateway_enable.

Maybe you want to activate natd, too.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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