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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!nntp.uio.no!Norway.EU.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!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: Q: "OPTION GATEWAY" vs. "sysctl net.inet.ip.forewarding" Date: 6 Jun 1996 23:22:37 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4p7p7t$9a@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <4p61ad$6li@gwdu19.gwdg.de> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <4p61ad$6li@gwdu19.gwdg.de>, Stefan Witzel <switzel@uni-goettingen.de> wrote: >Is there a difference between OPTION GATEWAY in the config file and the >parameter net.inet.ip.forwarding of sysctl ? The difference is that the GATEWAY option is no longer supported in the development code; where it is supported (in 2.1.0-release) it requires a kernel re-compile and reboot every time you want to change it. Hence you should always use the sysctl command. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://freefall.freebsd.org/~jraynard/ james@jraynard.demon.co.uk | jraynard@freebsd.org