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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.bu.edu!news3.near.net!monk.proteon.com!jfw From: jfw@proteon.com (John Woods) Subject: Re: How to configure NetBSD as a router???? HELP! Message-ID: <DA8887.J9o@proteon.com> Sender: news@proteon.com Nntp-Posting-Host: kerplop.proteon.com Organization: Proteon, Inc., Westborough, Ma. References: <3rk7oh$iq@harvey.esu.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 18:19:19 GMT Lines: 23 kender@esu.edu (Daniel Garcia) writes: >I have a small problem. I have a NetBSD box that is acting as >my internet gateway for the machines i have at home. Up till now, >it's been blindly running socks because my provider would only do >one ip number. Now, I have them routing/connecting a class C, but >my netbsd box seems to refuse to forward packets! I haev GATEWAY >ciomplied in, and i tried running routed, but that didn't help. Having just pinged my wife's Mac, I can say with great authority that I am successfully doing this very thing at this very moment :-). You need to ensure four details: (1) you really do have GATEWAY defined in the running kernel; (2) you really are running routed; (3) you are running routed WITHOUT the -q flag (check /etc/netstart; -q is the default, and it is NOT what you want); and (4) that they REALLY are routing your class C network properly -- verify this with traceroute -s YOUR_ETHERNET_ADDR SOME_RANDOM_VICTIM or simply telnet out somewhere and see if you can ping the ethernet address of your NetBSD box (assuming that your LAN is ethernet). That last detail took a good deal more effort than I would have expected...