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From: monachus@dimensional.com (Monachus Silentium)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Routing problem with BSD
Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:17:45 GMT
Organization: Dimensional Communications
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BOFH (web@typo.org) wrote:
: 
: Bets are your system doesn't know its supposed to be routing at all.
: 
: Try this:
: 
:   sysctl -m net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
: 

that seems to get me one step further.  my win95 machine (206.27.146.33)
is now able to ping some things on my ISP's network (206.27.158.x), but
only a select few.  everything else times out, including his nameserver
and his gateway (206.27.158.10, 206.27.158.1), which doesn't really make
much sense....

thanks for the start, though - that seems to be the right direction.  any
other thoughts on the new development?  also, how can i have my machine
perform forwarding as default?  i seem to have overlooked it in the kernel
compile or wherever it's located.

monachus@pagan.net
admin@softsolut.com