Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:58:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: -kevin- <kathey@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for a Gateway How-To Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980603005658.22038S-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980602170553.00920bc0@netmail.home.net>
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On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, -kevin- wrote: > How do you make a machine a gateway? Gateway what? Please be specific. > I have read the 'Red' book (Unix System Administrators Handbook) and I > have read the 'Crab' book (TCP/IP Network Administration by Craig Hunt). Both are very good books. > I have fiddled and fiddled with 'routed' and '/etc/gateways'. I think > 'gated' is overkill for what I want to do. Even routed may be much for you. > I have name resolution working but I can't get a packet through the FreeBSD > machine and back to my machine. I am the root and the administrator on all > machines involved so I can change anything which needs to be changed. I > just don't know what to do. Did you enable IP forwarding in /etc/rc.conf? > I am a software engineer for Windows and would consider myself quite adept > (isn't that what all engineers say) at most things computer like, it's just > that it has been 12 years since I used UNIX on a daily basis. It's a very different world! :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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