Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 22:47:30 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Joel Eusebio <joel@tilapia.pang.pworld.net.ph> Cc: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gateway Message-ID: <39617A72.6143F9D3@gorean.org> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000704010153.31540A-100000@tilapia.pang.pworld.net.ph>
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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
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