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Date:      Tue, 4 Jul 2000 06:25:17 +0000 (   )
From:      Joel Eusebio <joel@tilapia.pang.pworld.net.ph>
To:        Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>
Cc:        Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gateway
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000704061406.3508A-100000@tilapia.pang.pworld.net.ph>
In-Reply-To: <39617A72.6143F9D3@gorean.org>

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Yes, I make it a point to reboot whenever I change something in my
settings. I tried the sysctl but I think its not installed in my box.
Thanks a lot Doug

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 Joel N. Eusebio
 Systems Administrator
 Philworld Online Pangasinan
 joel@pang.pworld.net.ph
 (075)5155535/(075)5230470
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On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Doug Barton wrote:

> Joel Eusebio wrote:
> > 
> > I just want my FreeBSD box to be a gateway to the internet. I've set
> > firewall_type to "open" to avoid any kind of restrictions but when I do a
> > traceroute from one of my workstations who's gateway is the freebsd box I
> > get all * * *. I have disabled natd since I won't be needing translation
> > coz all the IP's I'm using are live. I've checked the
> > /etc/defaults/rc.conf file and copied some of(what I think are important)
> > to the /etc/rc.conf file but still the Freebsd box won't act as a gateway.
> > What did I miss??? Thanks for your support.
> 
> 	Did you reboot after you put the gateway option in your /etc/rc.conf?
> If not, it wouldn't have been read yet. You can look in /etc/rc.network
> to see what the rc.conf option would do. In this case, all you have to
> do is:
> 
> sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
> 
> as root.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Doug
> -- 
>         "Live free or die"
> 		- State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire
> 
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> 




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