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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help: can't get IP-forwarding to work
Date: 2 Nov 1995 22:41:34 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <47bheu$ktn@helena.MT.net>
References: <472h3h$sqq@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de> <474t65$bkc@uriah.heep.sax.de> <477dvq$acs@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
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In article <477dvq$acs@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de>,
Gerhard Mehldau <mehldau@photogrammetrie.de> wrote:
>: >I'm having a problem getting IP-forwarding to work on a Compaq 386/25,
>: >running FreeBSD 2.0.5.
>
>well, I can ping the "forwarding" host from both sides, and I can ping
>hosts on both sides from the "forwarding" host -- but I can not ping a
>host on one side from a host on the other side and vice versa.

It sounds like a routing problem to me.  Read the sections on routing in    
the FreeBSD handbook.  Also, O'Reilly's book 'TCP/IP Network
Administration' is a must-have for things like this.


Nate
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