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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!nntp.gmd.de!nntp.darmstadt.gmd.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!fauern!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!bonnie.heep!not-for-mail 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 Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3tgpai$lkg@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> References: <3tft2j$l9p@wrgsun4.corp.wrgrace.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.109.108.139 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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. ;-)