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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: 28 Aug 1995 16:52:25 +0200
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paul <paul@comcirc.com.au> wrote:
>... The problem is that I can only
>access the server and I cant access any other machine outside of it,
>not even my router. ie. when I ping my SLIP host, it pings Ok ( I can
>also ping my SLIP client machine from my SLIP server ), but when I ping
>anything else I dont get any result back.
Make sure your machine is forwarding IP packets:
sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
(Somewhere in /etc/netstart or /etc/rc.)
--
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. ;-)