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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an IP router Message-ID: <1994Mar7.053956.27282@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 References: <2lc0a7$lds@werple.apana.org.au> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 05:39:56 GMT Lines: 14 Graham Menhennitt (gfm@werple.apana.org.au) wrote: : Graham Menhennitt (gfm@werple.apana.org.au) wrote: : : I want to configure my FreeBSD 1.0.2 system as an IP router between an : : ethernet and a SLIP connection. : I can't help you with the slip as I haven't had ocasion to use it yet. But I can say that you will probably have to recompile your kernel with "options GATEWAY" in your kernel config file. I expect someone to pipe up that this is a bad, evil, nasty, RFC breaking thing to do as BSD boxes are not supposed to be used as routers. But what the heigh. ;)