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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Setting a SLIP server
Date: 29 Aug 1995 09:16:43 +0200
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K.C. Furge <kfurge@wqs1.ysi.com> wrote:

>Make sure that you have compiled your kernel with the "options GATEWAY" 
>directive.  If you didn't, IP packets won't be forwarded to your slip 
>connection from the outside.

options GATEWAY is deprecated and likely to disappear RSN.  Refer to
Jordan's and my other reply for the correct way.
-- 
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. ;-)