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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 13:08:31 -0800
From: Ronald Wright <rjwright@everett.com>
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I have just installed FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA and I went throught the install
process just fine.  I installed ovr anonymous ftp, and I was able to get
a network connection just fine the problem is that, when I went through
the post install questions I accidently told the it that I wanted the
machine to be a gateway.  Now I can't use ftp, netscape, lynx, etc..
when I am connected to the net.  I try /stand/sysinstall and change the
settings in there and it appears to change but when I reboot and go back
into /stand/sysinstall none of the config changes I made are shown.  I
found that the /etc/sysconfig file has the info on network but it seems
to not make any different what I do in there and I get a message no
saying something like NO not found.  Is there another file I need to
look at to fix this problem.  I am at a loss as to what to do at this
point. Any help would be greatly appreciated.  

		Thanks, Ron Wright.
p.s.  a couple of weeks ago I had everything working o.k. with FreeBSD
2.1.6-RELEASE.  I messed something up and decided to reinstall after the
news flash about the security issue.  That time I didn't pick gateway in
post install.