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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!disney!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to set up routing tables? Date: 19 Aug 1995 18:23:09 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 41 Message-ID: <415a6d$eui@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <ARNULF.95Aug17095614@arnulf.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <411n6s$e62@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: disney.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, J Wunsch (j@bonnie.heep.sax.de) had the courage to say: : & H.-P. Guenther <arnulf@arnulf.dialup.fu-berlin.de> wrote: : >I have a second computer now with FreeBSD installed (what else?). : >And I have a serial line, later this will be replaced by ethernet. : >So I configured GATEWAY into the kernel and set up my first system as : >a slipserver. : options GATEWAY is almost a no-op and will disappear in one of the : next releases. I hope not. There's no reason to remove the ability to set default kernel flags like this at compile time. That aside: : Use : sysconf -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 First of all, it's sysctl, not sysconf. Second, crusty traditionalists like myself would probably prefer to do it like this: # echo "set ipforwarding = 1" | gdb -k -w /vmunix /dev/mem (Others should probably use /kernel instead of /vmunix.) The debugger is your friend, boys & girls. Even with the GPL attached to it, gdb is still one of the greatest things since sliced bread. -Bill -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~T~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Møøse Illuminati: ignore it and be confused, or join it and be confusing! ~~~~~~ "Welcome to All Things BSDish! If it's not BSDish, it's crap!" ~~~~~~~