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From: steve@cg57.esnet.com (Steve Froeschke)
Subject: Re: SLIP difficulties
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Organization: E & S Systems, San Diego, CA.
References: <1993Nov17.130816.6937@alw.nih.gov> <2cdl4r$2k8@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 21:32:55 GMT
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banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn) writes:

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>Bah.  My machine is running slip just fine, but internal network hosts
>aren't having their packets routed out over the slip line.  How can I
>tell if my kernel has been compiled with gateway on?  I am running routed 
>with the -s option.

Check your kernel configuration file, and make sure it contains the statement:

options		GATEWAY

If not, add that in, and recompile.  Works for me.  :-)

Steve
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