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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP server configurations !!!
Date: 7 Dec 1995 21:11:21 GMT
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sturgesj@bosco.cc.odu.edu (Jonathan Sturges) writes:

> Usually you have to recompile the kernel, and make sure "options GATEWAY" is 
> in the kernel config file.
> It may also be that the gateway feature is part of the loadable kernel 
> modules; however, I really don't know anything about the LKM stuff.  I just 
> rebuild my kernels...  :)

Forget about ``options GATEWAY'': it's obsolete.

Use sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 instead (it's controllable by
sysconfig in systems > 2.1).

No kind of loadable module is needed either, the functionality is in
the basic IP code.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)