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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.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP/IP Question Date: 9 May 1996 21:19:51 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4mtnhn$jbi@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4mml37$pp8@pilot.njin.net> <4monnh$hi@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) wrote: > # 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-) ...and this option has been discontinued by now, so better don't mention it to newbies. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)