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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help w/internet gate Date: 28 Dec 1995 10:14:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4btqmm$555@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DK9u8q.HKA@pgh.nauticom.net> 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 ebush@pgh.nauticom.net (Eric Bush) writes: > Has anyone successfully installed and tested FreeBSD to act as an internet > gateway for other machines on a local net? I have been trying to get the > FreeBSD box to act as a gateway with no luck. For FreeBSD 2.1, set "gateway=YES" in /etc/sysconfig. For FreeBSD < 2.1, add "sysctl -nw net.inet.ip.forwarding=1" manually somewhere, e.g. in /etc/netstart. -- 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. ;-)