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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: "OPTION GATEWAY" vs. "sysctl  net.inet.ip.forewarding"
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 19:31:55 -0700
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To: Stefan Witzel <switzel@uni-goettingen.de>

Stefan Witzel wrote:
> 
> Is there a difference between OPTION GATEWAY in the config file and the
> parameter net.inet.ip.forwarding of sysctl ?

Yes, `options GATEWAY' is obsolete and dead.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project