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From: wpaul@panix.com (Bill Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [Q] IP forwarding through SLIP server ?
Date: 5 Aug 1994 12:05:03 -0400
Organization: The M00se Illuminati (bl00p!)
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se,
Rob Simons (rob@Simplex.NL) had the courage to say:
: Hi,
: I'm having the following problem:
: I can dial up and establish a SLIP connection with a FreeBSD 1.5.1.1
: machine, then I am able to telnet,ping,ftp, etc etc., but *only* to
: the machine where I'm connected to. When I try to do anything beyond
: this machine, I get a 'host or gateway not responding' error.
[munch]
: Am I missing something ?
: - Rob.
Rob:
Yes, you're mssing something: the FreeBSD GENERICAH & GENERICBT kernels
come with IP forwarding turned off by default. You need to build a new
kernel with 'options GATEWAY' in the config file in order for your
machine to act as a router.
According to the docs (specifically, /usr/src/sys/doc/options.doc),
the GATEWAY option is disabled by default because FreeBSD doesn't
quite meet the "Routing Requirement" specifications. Install the
kernel sources and refer to this file for more information.
Hope this helps.
-Bill
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