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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news1.digital.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!parc!fenner From: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IPFORWARDING on FreeBSD2.0, Help Please Date: 20 Sep 1995 16:10:59 GMT Organization: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Lines: 23 Message-ID: <43peej$m6l@news.parc.xerox.com> References: <43ip24$as@mippet.ci.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: crevenia.parc.xerox.com In article <43ip24$as@mippet.ci.com.au>, Ferry Winarta <ferryw@softplus.com.au> wrote: > > I tried to enable ipforwarding on FreeBSD2.0, but it didn't work. > > I did recompile the kernel with GATEWAY, IPFORWARDING, and > IPFORWARDING_VERBOSE options. > > I tried sysctl -a, it gave me ipforwarding = 1. > > I have 2 network cards, with different subnet. I tried to telnet from > network1 to network2, it came back with timeout. Sounds like you don't have your routes set properly. Do you have static routes on network1 and network2 pointing to the FreeBSD box, or do you run routed or gated on the FreeBSD box to advertise the routes? > Do I need to use ipfw command to enable this No, ipfw tells the kernel to *not* forward certain packets. This is probably not what you want. Bill