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From: tom@haven.uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: HELP! PLEASE! slip and routing
Date: 4 Mar 1995 23:00:50 GMT
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In article <3j3f8a$96@host1.computerlaw.com>, mrisch@computerlaw.com (Michael Risch) says:

>I really don't want to recompile the kernel, as I have a small hard disk 
>and relatively slow machine.  Additionally, if route doesn't work with 
>FreeBSD as shipped, why in the heck is my rc running routed?

  routed doesn't do routing.  It understands routing protocols used to
manage the routing table.

  You can use sysctl (sp?) to turn IP forwarding on.  arp -s does not do
do this.


Tom