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From: rgrimes@acacia (Rodney W. Grimes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: routing problem
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Date: 15 Mar 93 10:52:07 GMT
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kent@rahul.net (Kent Talarico) writes:
: I have machine1 and machine2 connected by ethernet, and machine2 and 
: machine3 connected by SLIP.
: machines 1 & 2 are running 386bsd, 3 is sunos4.1.
: 
: However, machine1 can't communicate with machine3, or vice-versa.
: I've tried every routing configuration I can think of but nothing
: has worked.
: 
: 
: Is there a solution to this problem?

Yes, you need options GATEWAY in your kernel.  The stock kernels do not
have this option turned on.