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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IPFORWARDING on FreeBSD2.0, Help Please
Date: 29 Sep 1995 21:33:55 +0100
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Ferry Winarta  <ferryw@softplus.com.au> wrote:
>I have another question, regarding ipfw...
>
>1. Does it need IPFORWARDING to be turned on, to use it ?

Just the opposite: don't turn net.inet.ip.forwarding on, or the
packets would bypass the firewall!

(Sorry, i don't have any cluse about the firewall itself.  The above
is just hearsay.)
-- 
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. ;-)