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Date:      Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:32:42 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Paul Halliday <transmogrify@sympatico.ca>
Cc:        Robert Small <rsmall@pwahec.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD networking
Message-ID:  <20000411163242.T60798@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <38F27580.B390B90A@sympatico.ca>
References:  <NDBBLNNFGKDKKFCHCHBPGEJCCNAA.rsmall@pwahec.org> <38F27580.B390B90A@sympatico.ca>

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Paul Halliday wrote:

>       FreeBSD side: edit the necessary fields in you
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf to turn the machine into a gateway. Again,
> extremely staight forward. Good luck.

This is slightly bad advice.  You should NOT edit /etc/defaults/rc.conf
directly.  Instead, override the settings there by putting them in
/etc/rc.conf and changing them to whatever you want.  (This may be what
you meant, but didn't quite explain it fully.)

-- 
Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D


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