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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP packet fowarding
Date: 6 Jul 1995 15:43:46 +0200
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Tim Holzer <tim.holzer@corp.wrgrace.com> wrote:
>I'm using the 2.0.5 release kernel on a machine as a dial-up into the network
>at work. The problem is that the machine can talk to the ethernet, if I dial
>up and connect a pppd link from home I can talk to the machine but it wont
>route any packets from one interface to the other!!
>
>What do I have to setup so that one port will foward packets to the other. I
>have already compiled a kernel with the GATEWAY option specified.
GATEWAY is almost a no-op already and should no longer be used.
Use
sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
instead (not sure about the keyword, check against `sysctl -a').
Perhaps you didn't tell the machines around how to route the packets?
You won't see a ping answer unless the remote peer is going to route
the answer packets back to you.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)