Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:47:31 -0400 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@verizon.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system Message-ID: <gd20l4$5n2$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <48F43EB1.40304@gmail.com> <gd1mi1$5tl$1@ger.gmane.org> <20081014101733.GA47158@icarus.home.lan> <gd1t24$q3s$1@ger.gmane.org> <20081014104626.GA47785@icarus.home.lan>
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Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [snip] >> > >> > Doesn't he need to also set sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 for his >> > box to act as a gateway? Or is this handled by the NAT portion? >> > >> The gateway_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf sets this. > > Right, but it wasn't in your /etc/rc.conf example (see your mail), so I > figured the OP would come back saying "Okay I did what you said but it > still doesn't work!" Well that is going to happen anyway. ;-) I wasn't trying to write a tutorial, but rather an overview of what's involved. It's up to him to do the necessary RTFM to fill in the blanks. Yes - I agree it should have included it in the example snippet. By the time I got to that portion my thinking was fixated on the firewall aspect. It would have been clearer, perhaps, had it been so. -Mike
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