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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.gmi.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help: can't get IP-forwarding to work Date: 2 Nov 1995 22:41:34 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 20 Message-ID: <47bheu$ktn@helena.MT.net> References: <472h3h$sqq@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de> <474t65$bkc@uriah.heep.sax.de> <477dvq$acs@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <477dvq$acs@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de>, Gerhard Mehldau <mehldau@photogrammetrie.de> wrote: >: >I'm having a problem getting IP-forwarding to work on a Compaq 386/25, >: >running FreeBSD 2.0.5. > >well, I can ping the "forwarding" host from both sides, and I can ping >hosts on both sides from the "forwarding" host -- but I can not ping a >host on one side from a host on the other side and vice versa. It sounds like a routing problem to me. Read the sections on routing in the FreeBSD handbook. Also, O'Reilly's book 'TCP/IP Network Administration' is a must-have for things like this. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. Wanna go fly fishing? I don't charge or home #: (406) 443-7063 | feed you, but I do know the area pretty well.