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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!gs.dfn.de!fauern!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SLIP woes... or do I just not know what I am doing :-) Date: 21 Sep 1995 09:18:38 +0200 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <43r3ke$eqh@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <43p6ut$dp6@outer.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Josh Karnes <joshk@tanisys.com> wrote: >- Proposed solution: routing problem... The problem is that the SLIP server > answers ARP requests for the IP number of the SLIP line with the ethernet > address of the ethernet card (as it should), but then the server does not > know to forward the packets to the SLIP line. sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)