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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Again, pppd problems...
Date: 23 Dec 1995 13:57:38 GMT
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rsww@quanta.com (Ross Walker) writes:

> Did you set options GATEWAY in the kernel config file for your machine,
> and re-compiled the kernel to use this gateway option. This must be done
> even if you have gateway=YES in your sysconfig.

Please, don't post misinformation.

options GATEWAY is deprecated since 2.0.5, all you need to do is
sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1.  And this is exactly what the
sysconfig gateway=YES finally does (in 2.1).

-- 
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. ;-)