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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!newsjunkie.ans.net!fonorola!uniserve!usenet From: tom@haven.uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IP forwarding on 950412 SNAP Date: 30 Apr 1995 07:38:00 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3nveoo$8gv@enigma.uniserve.com> References: <b8f681db@accursio.comune.bologna.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: home_pc.uniserve.com In article <b8f681db@accursio.comune.bologna.it>, Andrea Zappaterra <Andrea_Zappaterra@p128.f151.n5020.z2.fidonet.org> says: >I would like to use my FreeBSD box as a router between my LAN and the >Internet. I have a PPP account, but my box seems to refuse forwarding >packets from the LAN to the PPP link. If your PPP account is for individual use, there is no way to make this work. >Of course from the FreeBSD machine I can access both Internet and LAN >hosts: other machines on my LAN can only ping the FreeBSD box and not >the Internet hosts, even if I set their default gateway to the unix >machine. >I think the kernel is not forwarding correctly. >Can you help me? You can "sysctl" to turn ip forwarding on. Check the man page. Tom