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Date:      Tue, 2 Sep 2003 00:17:54 +0100
From:      "Aled Treharne" <aled@thinknuts.org>
To:        "'Micheal Patterson'" <micheal@cancercare.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: no response on unnumbered bridged interface?
Message-ID:  <002e01c370df$45c481f0$c32d20d4@aled>
In-Reply-To: <054601c370db$6198d2e0$0201a8c0@dredster>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Micheal Patterson [mailto:micheal@cancercare.net]
> Sent: 01 September 2003 23:49
> To: Aled Treharne; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: no response on unnumbered bridged interface?
[SNIP]
> Is the system configured to forward packets? Assuming that 5.x has the
> following variables available (I still run 4.8 here), try:
> 
> sysctl -a |grep forwarding
> 
> You should see "net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1". If it's 0, then your
system
> won't pass traffic between the the interfaces.

You're right, it won't. *sigh* But it does now.

Thanks for that. I can't believe I missed that one out. There ends a
weekend of pissing around (all hardware sucks). :)

Now to see if I can trim down my ruleset a little bit.

Cheers,
Aled.




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