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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Routing problem solution sought.. Date: 23 Dec 1995 14:31:40 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4bh3sc$naq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4b79dn$1t6@eir.cs.wmich.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In-Reply-To: <4b79dn$1t6@eir.cs.wmich.edu> To: ishwar@cs.wmich.edu (Ishwar rattan) ishwar@cs.wmich.edu (Ishwar rattan) writes: > At present, it is achieved with FreeBSD as static router: a user > has to telnet into FreeBSD machine and then telnet into the > distrbuted clusture. [...] Is there a way to make the FreeBSD > machine a transparent router for the distributed OS clusture? sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 Or in FreeBSD 2.1's /etc/sysconfig: # If you want this host to be a gateway, set to YES. gateway=YES -- 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. ;-)