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Date:      Mon, 5 May 1997 14:31:49 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
To:        hendra@unix.ukdw.ac.id (Hendra Sentono)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't get reply when pinging from inside network
Message-ID:  <199705051231.OAA17127@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970505153956.10770A-100000@unix.ukdw.ac.id> from Hendra Sentono at "May 5, 97 03:53:42 pm"

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> 
> Our BSD 2.1.5-RELEASE configured as a gateway and firewall.
> It is installed with 2 network cards and configured to be able to
> give Internet connection for the inside network (with one NIC, the
> other NIC is connected to the Internet via VSAT connection)
> 
> # parts of sysconfig
> router="routed"
> gateway=YES
> firewall=YES
> 
> The problem is when a computer from the inside network try to ping
> any Internet address (such as www.yahoo.com), it can recognize the
> IP address, but it receives 'Request time out' message.
> 
> Most of our inside network computers are Win95 with TCP/IP installed,
> DNS enabled (we configure the BSD machine as name server, too).
> 
> In this situation our inside computers can't ftp-ing any outside
> sites (but it can ftp-ing the BSD machine and also some other BSD
> machines that have the same position/connected to the Internet
> directly as the former)

It looks like your firewall configuration is correct, (read the firewall
section in /usr/share/doc/handbook.html if in doubt) but you want to use your
BSD machine as a gateway as well, so you have to set gateway="YES" in
/etc/sysconfig to get it started at bootime, or set it later with

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

Wolfgang




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