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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!pendragon!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.vader.org!news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP/IP Question Date: 7 May 1996 23:52:17 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4monnh$hi@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <4mml37$pp8@pilot.njin.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <4mml37$pp8@pilot.njin.net>, David <btjones@pilot.njin.net> wrote: > > When I connect (with, at first, difficulty) and login with either >SLIP or PPP (with a script) all goes well and the connection is established >alright. However, when I try to telnet out from the Windows 95 machine to >anywhere outside of the server (the BSD system) it just hangs there. Once >or twice I have been able to get it to telnet, for reasons unknown, out of >this area - but then all hosts thought I was the BSD machine, and when I tried >to use the network from the BSD machine it didn't work! > Does anyone have any clue what I should have done or should do? > Do I need gateD? # sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 to enable the FreeBSD box to forward packets to the outside world. (You can also re-compile the kernel with 'options GATEWAY', but that's deprecated and anyway it takes longer 8-) gated is completely over the top for this situation (IMHO). > Please email any responses if possible. cc'd as requested. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland jraynard@dial.pipex.com james@jraynard.demon.co.uk